Quotes About Perspective

Life's as good as you make it, today we made it good.

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

I discovered what is and isn't important to me. I decided I really wanted to enjoy life with someone fun, who can make the best out of any situation - whatever it is we're doing.

Nothing in life has happened to you, it's happened FOR You!

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.

I have seen quite a lot of things in life. I would not like to change anything. Because every moment of my life has taught me something.

The best thing in life aren't things.

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

Nobody understands your life, but you.

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.

Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn't have or do in this life.