Quotes About Perspective

To a life that seizes Upon content, Locality seems But accident.

Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.

It just makes sense to remember gratitude and the place that gratitude should have in your life, and that none of us are owed these wonderful experiences, and we should always make the best of them.

It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.

There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.

Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.

I don't think of myself as being funny. But life takes strange turns.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

One thing is clear: My life is completely different than it was before the kidnapping.

If you're only happy when the sun is out, you're missing half of your life.

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living.

Every time, at any point of my life, I think now is always the best age to be.

Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life.

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.

I now know that nothing in my life will change until I change the way I see my life and myself.

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.

My biggest life lesson is that money cannot buy happiness.