Quotes About Perspective

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

Life gave me everything I asked If all I asked was not a great deal, that's my problem!

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

Death is a gift. Without it we wouldn't value life.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.