Quotes About Perspective

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.

it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor.

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

Life's to short for chess.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

There are two ways to be rich in life: have what you want or want what you have.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.