Quotes About Perspective

The key to life is to be happy with or without money. Money only magnifies who you really are.

Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.

Life s picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment.

I don't see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.

Stop thinking schoolishly. Stop acting teacherishly. Stop talking about learning as though it's separate from life.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike, we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.

With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet.

I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of us to the immense hardships beyond our borders.

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.

When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.

I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?"

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

....avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!" -Angela

"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

Something horrible happens and I try to make it funny. It's really a tortured life. You go to a salsa bar, at your local burrito stand, and you know, you think "how can you make a joke about this?"

I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.