Quotes About Perspective

No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.

I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.

But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.

We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

My outlook on life is so much clearer.

People say having kids is life changing, well that doesn't necessarily mean a good thing, does it? I could take one of my legs off. That would change my life.

Life is beautiful. Look around. Don't take anything for granted.

I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things.

When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.

Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.

In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others.

If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.

An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.

I hate rushing the creative process, but there could definitely be a lot worse lots in life.

Everyone tells me I've had such an interesting life, but sometimes I think it's been nothing but stomach disturbances and self-concern.

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

Life is a terrible thing, thank God.

When we begin to genuinely appreciate the illusory, dreamlike nature of our waking experiences, we are starting to mix those appearances with the appearances of our nighttime dreams. We are bringing those two states closer together.

In the beginning, our one-pointed focus on our goal of personal freedom is necessary; however, if carried to extremes, it can also lead to a kind of narrow-mindedness and sense of claustrophobia.