Quotes About Perspective

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.

All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.

My life isn't interesting! It's my mom. You need to write her life and put me in it. I'm a cameo in her life.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.

When you live life for yourself it's hard on everyone. And that hasn't changed. For me, if anything, it's gotten worse.

It must be made possible for the one to live vicariously the life of the many from the beginning.

While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

If we give up the notion that everybody's life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody's life is perfect.

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

We will never enjoy life unless we make a quality decision to do so.

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

I don't really care if people like a character ornot; I think in life we don't always like everybody. But you haveto be able to understand them.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.

All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly.