Quotes About Perspective

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

You need to know that even as life develops in superficially disappointing ways, there is still fun to be had.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

Anybody who has a problem with 'Skins' obviously doesn't understand teenage life.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

Every moment spent in negativity is paid for with something truly priceless. That something is life.

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.

There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people

I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.

as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.

You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

I'm always inspired by actresses who are older than me. Because I know that person has lived so much more life than I have. There's a whole other toolbox.