Quotes About Perspective

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.

We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.

I have arranged my little life.

Turn things around sometimes and look at life from a different perspective.

If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

I'm not some big party chick, so it's not like I have to keep up my big social life.

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search.

Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.

It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.

There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.

I want to know about life! I want some real answers..." "Five." "Five?!" "I thought that was a pretty good answer!