Quotes About Perspective

Life is full of miracles, but they're not always the ones we pray for.

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

Life has its own flavor.

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

Do not judge others by your own standards, for everyone is making their way home, in the way they know best.

Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

If you must make a difference in life, then change your mind set.

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

Reality: What a concept!

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.

In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact — everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

Gorillaz virtually changed my wife...sorry, I mean, life...no, actually, it was my wife.

Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don't have anything, you can be happy where you are.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.