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Quotes About Perspective

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.
~ Patrick Ness
Quit thinking that tomorrow your problems will go away and life will begin in earnest. The Lord is waiting to help you cope today if you will lay your human-size needs at his divine feet.
~ Paul H. Dunn
If you understand life...you MUST be misinformed!
~ Paulo Coelho
Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.
~ Paulo Coelho
No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.
~ Paulo Coelho
The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.
~ Paulo Coelho
As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.
~ Paulo Coelho
The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.
~ Pema Chodron
There's a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I'm like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
~ Pindar
Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep
~ Pope Francis
You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.
~ Oliver Platt
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
~ Oprah Winfrey
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
~ Oscar Wilde
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber
~ Oscar Wilde
I suppose there's a lot of people that've got a better life than me. But I don't know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Life's not all about money.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Having success at an early age gave me more of a sense of what's important in life rather than always driving to make it.
~ Ralph Lauren
There is properly no history, only biography.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't worry about your life cause if you hold it too close you lose it.
~ Rebecca St. James
Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
~ Regina Brett
I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.
~ Renee O'Connor
Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the world
~ Rennie Ellis
Whenever you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right. (Henry Ford)
~ Rhonda Byrne