Quotes About Perspective

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

I try not to get too emotional, whether it's going really well or going really bad, i always try to stay even keel -- which is great for golf, but it isn't always great for life.

Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

I don't have to have the biggest house or the biggest car or the longest mink, but quality of life is really glamorous.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.

I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.

I've come to realize that life is what you make it.

Life's a Trip... ok. I just want to know who packed for me.

Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

I like pessimists. They're always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

It's not your life that sucks...it's your thinking that sucks!

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

Understanding a person's hunger and responding to it is one of the most potent tools you'll ever discover for getting through to anyone you meet in business or your personal life.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

I wake up to profound perspective that allows me to celebrate the choices of my moments, of my life.

We are all bumbling along,side by side, week in, week out, our paths similar in some ways and different in others, all apparently running parallel. But parallel lines never meet.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.