Quotes About Perspective

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

So over violent, or over civil,That every man with him was God or Devil.

The most may err as grossly as the few.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really just like to enjoy life.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.

Photography is a very important part of my life.

What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.

I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.

I had always been taught that life was the other way around -- that you had to make sure you got what was coming to you . . .

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute.

The definition of adventure depends upon how boring your life is.

Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.

Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

I learned that life, it's beautiful to be alive. I saw a lot of people dead there. When I got out of there, I was happy I was out, happy I was alive.

Life isn't all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years.

If we had everything we wanted and needed without asking of Heavenly Father, we would lose sight of the hand of God in our lives.