Quotes About Perspective

As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.

Where your attention goes, your life goes.

I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it.

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.

We just had a near-life experience!

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

Everyone's got a different story.

Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry

I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.