Quotes About Perspective

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.

We cannot all see the dreams in the same way.

Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.

People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me.

Your life is a reflection of how you think

I have always tried...to lay before the colored race a cross section of it's own life, to view the colored heart from close range.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Your life is constantly nourished by your thoughts. Whatever the direction your life is moving, your thoughts have led you there.

It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

Money can't buy life.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.