Quotes About Perspective

Dogs lead a nice life. You never see a dog with a wristwatch.

If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob".

If you appreciate your life, if you appreciate your job, if you appreciate yourself, if you appreciate your surroundings-poor or rich, whatever they are-you are divine.

When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

If I want a long, boring story with no point to it, I have my life.

I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."

Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.

You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.

Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

Don't seek more days in your life but more life in your days.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.