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Quotes About Perspective

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
~ George Eliot
There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.
~ George Michael
The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.
~ Georges Pompidou
Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.
~ Gore Vidal
In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.
~ Gottfried Helnwein
Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.
~ H. G. Wells
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
~ H. G. Wells
Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.
~ Happy Rockefeller
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
~ Harold Brodkey
If you find life absurd, shouldn't you find death precisely meaningful?
~ Harry Mulisch
You have to look life straight in the eye. De-mystify your world. Can you really afford to believe magic is for real? Not when time is concerned.
~ Harvey Mackay
Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
This world is a comedy, not Life.
~ Horace Walpole
Talk about life - but in your own way.
~ Howard Pyle
Life is never what it seems - and that's the great thing about it
~ Ines de La Fressange
When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.
~ Jack Nicholson
It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.
~ James Cameron
Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.
~ Jane Wagner
No matter what happens, I'll always say that I've had a wonderful life.
~ Jeff Gordon
Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or... or what
~ Jennifer Egan
I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.
~ Jennifer Garner
You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much.
~ Jerry Weintraub
Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
~ Jessica Mitford