Quotes About Perspective

I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!

Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

Life is a reflection of what you think. If your thoughts are negative, the world you see will be the same.

Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it's at - of saying, "This is the way it is." If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy.

The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is outrageous.

I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.

I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

Bring happiness to your everyday experiences rather than try to extract happiness from them and however life looks, you'll be happy.

A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Attitude will always define who we are in life.

It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what makes life interesting.

I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that's for sure.

What if we just acted like everything was easy?