Quotes About Perspective

What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.

Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.

Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

The gift within the gift involved the opening of an inner eye that changed how I looked at life.

physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.

You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.

The way I see life, it's like we're all flying on the Hindenburg, why fight over the window seats?

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.

If you think about shortages, you're going to attract more shortage! If you think about what's missing, you're going to attract more of what's missing in your life.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.

I think I've got a map in my car that wants to be used, and I think there are places we can go that need to be seen. Maybe no one else will ever visit them and appreciate them or take the time to think they're important, but maybe even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they can mean something to us.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place. If we stopped to remember that there's such a thing as a Purina Tower, we'd all be happier.

Maybe it isn't the room that's different. Maybe it's me.

Sometimes there's beauty in the harsh words - it's all about how you read them.

Cara, por que você faz isso? -Porque todos vamos morrer um dia. Eu só quero estar preparado. Esse não é o motivo, claro, mas a explicação foi suficiente pra ele. A verdade é que existem muitos motivos, que mudam diariamente [...]

If I was designing a home for Libby Strout, it would be exceptional. It would be one of a kind. It would be bright red with a tin roof, at least two stories, possibly more, a state-of-the-art art weather station, and lots of turrets. Also a tower, but not one to lock her in. It would be a place where she could sit and look out over and beyond the town, as far as the horizon, maybe even past it.

the great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody. I

And maybe Finch didn't feel like he had a choice, or maybe he wasn't trying to kill himself at all but just going in search of the bottom. But I'll never really know, will I? Then

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it`s the small things that count.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place. If we stopped to remember that there's such a thing as a Purina Tower and a view like this, we'd all be happier." For