Quotes About Perspective

You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things.

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed.

Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.

And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.

It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions.

What matters in life is not so much what happens to us, but what happens in us

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

When I'm taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.

A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.

You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me.

Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun.

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

Dealing with people, my friends, is really nothing more than a question of the price that one is willing to pay. The better you understand life, the more capital you build.