Quotes About Perspective

You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the world's negative events, you not only add to them, but you also bring more negative things into your own life.

Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?

Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

What you focus on grows. What you concentrate on is what you see more of in your life.

Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.

I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.

I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.