Quotes About Perspective

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

For most people, my suffering is enjoyable. I suffer in a funny way.

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.

I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective. Most of the elite suffer from psychogenic amnesia. That means it's not organic amnesia, such as damage caused by brain injury. It's just a matter of psychology.

I don't believe in telling people you can suffer this life because you're rewarded in a future life.

When I became ill, I started to experience what my patients had suffered under my care.

I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.

I suffered a stroke in 2002 that made everything else in my life that happened to that point pale in comparison.

Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it.