Quotes About Perspective

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!

Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.

Think of what would happen to us... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.

He is already past the high point in his life and coming down on the other side. By next week he'll be nostalgia. He's 12 years old, and it's over for him.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do

Sometimes, we should maybe sit back and look at all we have. It's because of golf and the tour. I mean, this life we lead is unbelievable.

What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin.

We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

You are what you believe you are.

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.

Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.

Life just makes so much more sense with black framed glasses on.

Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'tis better than many have, for while we've a whole lot of troubles the most of them never occur.

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.