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Quotes About Perspective

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.
~ Cornel West
I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
~ Danny Boyle
...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Don't take life too seriously! Learn to enjoy yourself and be grateful for all you have.
~ Dia Frampton
I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.
~ Diana Vreeland
I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
~ Donald Miller
I'm forty four; I'm way closer to dead than I am life of the party.
~ Doug Stanhope
One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.
~ Elizabeth Aston
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.
~ Frederick Lenz
Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only then will it stop breaking your heart.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
~ Alan Bennett
I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.
~ Anthony Hopkins
Life is a disease.
~ Gail Godwin
It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves. Don't take life too seriously.
~ Geri Halliwell
What you do with your eyes in some cases is a matter of life and death. To look at focus on the sickness brings death. To look at focus on God's Word brings life.
~ Gloria Copeland
Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.
~ Henry Cloud
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Disappointment is temporary. Only your thought about it is permanent. Change your mind about what has disappointed you and you will change your life
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.
~ Rajneesh
It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy."
~ Tom Hanks
In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
~ Maya Angelou
Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
~ Miguel de Cervantes