Quotes About Perspective

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.

Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.

If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.

The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That's why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

The depth of my sorrow is the height of my joy.

I thought maybe a day was coming when I'd stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I'd just start living, no questions asked.

I couldn't decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.

The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

So I'm very grateful for everything that has happened in my life.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life.

You gotta just laugh at yourself and let it go and not take things too seriously because life is too short.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life.

Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.

Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.