Quotes About Perspective

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

I've got to live my life. Bad things happen. I can't be sitting here worrying about it.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.

Life goes on within you and without you

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

Well, I enjoy my life. You know, I think life is an art, and that one has to live it as an art. That's your choice.

My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.

I am whelmed, and not overly whelmed, just whelmed about a lot of facets in life - just how fragile life is and the different challenges you have in life, phobias about things.

When you walk down the street of Kabul your values for life changes, they do change.

Life is too serious to be taken seriously.

You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.

I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.

What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.