Quotes About Perspective

The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to some extent it is, but it is much more dependent on the attitude we bring to life.

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.

My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

A new car is not going to change your life.

I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

Stories are a different kind of true.

Sometimes I feel like I am on top of the world. Other times it feels like the world is on top of me.

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.