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Quotes About Perspective

Every single movie that I've ever done has affected my life; I always feel more changed by a character than I affect them or change them, always. I mean, that's just kind of the way it is.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
~ John Berryman
I still find each day too short.
~ John Burroughs
The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.
~ William C. Brown
Life is the art of being well deceived.
~ William Hazlitt
One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?
~ William Lyon Phelps
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
~ William Matthews
I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
~ Zaha Hadid
There is a difference between standard of living and quality of life. Quality of life is more important.
~ Zig Ziglar
I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
~ Andrew Young
It's not the balanced life we remember, it's the beautiful life.
~ Anne Sweeney
One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.
~ Robert Fulghum
Life isn't all about what you don't have, but yet, what you do with what you have been given.
~ Robert M. Hensel
I can't see any advantage to fame. I'm happy with the life I have now. I've got the same two friends I've had since I was 12, and I can't see that changing.
~ Robert Pattinson
Your whole life informs your eye.
~ Roger Deakins
There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.
~ Roland Smith
I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction.
~ Roman Polanski
That is the key to navigating this life - don't take it too seriously. That's when the party begins.
~ RuPaul
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
~ Samuel Johnson
Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
~ Samuel Johnson
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
~ Samuel Johnson
When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.
~ Saul Alinsky
The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out.
~ Scott Adams