Quotes About Perspective

What's hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesn't feel like enough. But it is.

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.

Everything in life is relative.

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.

You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.

You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.

What you think determines your outlook on life. What you do determines your destiny.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

No matter what you think-life goes on and the world still turns and the universe has its own story. The most we can do is plan anyway, but understand, be humbled by things greater than ourselves.

Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?

The secret to a happy life is to run out of cash and air at the same time.