Quotes About Perspective

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

You're either in a position of abundance or you're in a position of poverty. Now, that's every area of your life. That's not just financially.

Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.

I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Your vigor for life appalls me.

In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime.

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

It's quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.

Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

Maybe its time we get a toolbox that doesnt just count whats easily counted, the tangible in life, but actually counts what we most value, the things that are intangible.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.