Quotes About Perspective

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

Beliefs can be roadways or roadblocks. A variety of beliefs can make life interesting and colorful.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.

Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

She has the gift of accepting her life.

Life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

Life is so tough. I don't know how old you are, but I've seen so much in a wink. One phone call and your life is changed forever. We all know that. You better laugh at everything.

In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one.

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

The way you see life will largely determine what you get out of it.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with... will determine your life a decade from now.

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles.

How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.