Quotes About Perspective

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?

I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too.

(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.

Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless

Acting is fun. It's not my whole life. It's not my entire being. It's secondary to my life. My life is primary. I'm running in the primary, as you know.

Life is not measured by the time we live.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us.

What is the meaning of life? Life has the meaning that you give it.

One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

I get on with all my exes, so there's nothing I need to forget about. I don't know - life is shorter than it seems.

African-Americans are as fair as any other group, but they bring their life experiences to bear as just as whites bring their experiences to bear.

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.