Quotes About Perspective

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

we wish for more in life rather than more of it.

Being this side of 40 feels like what I should have felt being this side of 25: in my body, in my heart, happy with my life, and OK with whatever bumps in the road present themselves.

New places always help us look at life differently

I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!

Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all.

Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have wings. Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.

Your dreams should never be better than your real life

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at a young age.

It is only your mental habits and your selected memories of how you think things are that keep you from moulding things in your life in a more harmonious way.

For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.