Quotes About Perspective

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.

The cares of this life emerge as very small items indeed along our daily path.

Life is too short for mean anxieties.

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life.

I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that's one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that's entirely different.

This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

Funny, how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

There's too many interesting women I have…not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

My life is perfect even when it's not.

Consider the bigger picture.....think things through and fully commit!

We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.

You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.

It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.