Quotes About Perspective

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower.

I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.

There is no area of life that does not have a biblical worldview attached to it.

Chess is most certainly not my life.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension where we connect and give to others.

The quality of my life was the quality of my questions.

Your thoughts really, truly shape everything in your life that you feel and experience.

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

I've got to show life as I see it.

It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the same objective. Yet Kafka came out with a better world-view.

Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.