Quotes About Perspective

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

As long as you have a window, life is exciting.

It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.

An empowering perspective gives birth to an empowered life.

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That's life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what's going on.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general.

Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.

What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it...Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.