Quotes About Perspective

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

I can't maintain the body of a 16-year-old anymore. That's just a really boring life to me. You really just cannot do anything fun, ever.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

You have to judge everybody on balance, all the positives and all the negatives. In the life of my husband, I think the positives outweigh the negatives.

Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

The mind has a thousand eyes.

Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.

I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

I realized that being present for loved ones who are dying or aging is one of the greatest honors and gifts in my life. We are quite small in the big scheme of things.