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Quotes About Perspective

Funny how life messed with you.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.
~ Sarah Silverman
When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater.
~ Scott Adams
The whole point to life-that you have to experience yourself, but then when you do you realize that you've learned so much from the bad things that sometimes they're better than the good things.
~ Selma Blair
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.
~ Seneca the Younger
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.
~ Seneca the Younger
As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.
~ Shelley Hamlin
When you change what you believe, you change what you do.
~ Spencer Johnson
You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.
~ Stella McCartney
We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.
~ Steven Morrissey
I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.
~ Steven Morrissey
Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem.
~ Steven Morrissey
Everything in life is writable.
~ Sylvia Plath
You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.
~ Sylvia Plath
And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.
~ T.A. Barron
Life's too short for anxious score-keeping
~ Teju Cole
Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.
~ Thom Yorke
... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.
~ Thomas Merton
If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.
~ Thomas Nagel
I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.
~ Toi Derricotte
We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.
~ Tom Robbins
If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.
~ Tony Robbins
What is life without incompatible realities?
~ Ursula K. Le Guin