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Quotes About Perspective

To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
~ Agnes Varda
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
~ Albert Einstein
Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.
~ Amish Tripathi
Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
~ Barbara Johnson
No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Saving lives is more important than preserving the quality of life. Quality of life is always amenable to improvement. Death is permanent.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.
~ Bethenny Frankel
Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things.
~ Bob Proctor
After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
~ Brittany Snow
We can only know others by ourselves.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
~ S. E. Hinton
How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.
~ Shel Silverstein
Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.
~ Stephen Sondheim
One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.
~ Sydney Pollack
I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
~ Sylvia Plath
I was supposed to be having the time of my life.
~ Sylvia Plath
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I think that the needs in human life will change and grow and evolve. I do think that that the importance will always be grander than you would ever believe them to be.
~ Tom DeLonge
Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.
~ Tom Hanks
Just look at me now - I've never been so happy in my life!
~ Vera-Ellen
Give thanks for all that shows up in your life including the stuff that you perceive to be negative, the things that you wish wouldn't have happened. Don't take anything forgranted.
~ Wayne Dyer
Life is an Attitude. It's what you Choose to Believe, ALWAYS.
~ Wayne Dyer
Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
~ Anatoly Karpov
If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, youre wasting it.
~ C. K. Williams