Quotes About Perspective

Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.

How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.

A normal life. Such a simple idea, but it's almost impossible for me to picture.

The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?

It's hard to remember that life is a miracle. We're just living it and we forget that.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.

Whenever I get down about life going by too quickly, what helps me is a little mantra that I repeat to myself: at least I'm not a fruit fly.

Your imagination is more real that then the world you see, because the world you see comes from what you imagine and believe! What you believe and feel to be true is what will be your life.

You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.

The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.

Life on Earth will never be fair the way we expect it to be.

My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.

If it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.