Quotes About Perspective

It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it.

Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

You can live your life out of a circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision.

High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she.

Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade

How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky.

Even if I have only ten more years in front of me, it's such an intensive life. I have the feeling that I have already lived three lives in three years.

Perhaps Singapore could learn from us a more relaxed way of life.

A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.