Quotes About Perspective

In those times when we yearn to have more in our lives, we should dwell on the things we already have. In doing so, we will often find that our lives are already full to overflowing.

Our memories are not totally fact or completely fiction. They are a conglomeration of the thoughts that we put together to explain to ourselves who we are. Just like a beautiful flower garden will look totally different in daylight as opposed to dark, the memories of our past are held hostage by our perspective.

In life's journey, the things we keep we eventually lose, while the things we give away, we always have.

I have always found it ironic that the people in this world who have the most to be thankful for are often the least thankful, and somehow the people who have virtually nothing, many times live lives full of gratitude.

I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.

When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

To me, life is like an orchard. You pick the fruit when you see it. For years, I bummed around the world looking for happiness. Then I realized happiness isn't something you find. All the happiness in the world is between your own two ears.

Everybody has theology whether they admit it or not.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.

If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

I'm growing older, but not up.

Life is more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's "yes." Sometimes the answer is "no." Sometimes it's "you gotta be kidding.

God is bigger than people think.

If you have a naturally dominant personality, you must be careful. If your spouse feels as though he or she is being pressured to see and do things your way, they aren't going to be totally open and honest.

my life is enough to depress the entire universe but I'm the only one living it

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

There's a point where one finds one's own voice and that's when it really starts to matter. The things that inspire me as a thirty-seven-year-old are very different from what inspired me as a twenty-year-old.

Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go to common ground, where for a time we are not alone Where we don't have to ask how it feels, because we feel it for ourselves." 

Fiction, when it's done right, does in the daylight what dreams do at night: we leave the confines of our own experiences and go to common ground, where for a time we are not alone.