Quotes About Perspective

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.

Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.

A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

I rest their case. I'm Pro-Life.

I don't look for [comedic moments] actually, I just live my life.

My advice to graduates is to stay positive. Life is short, and you'll be dead soon.

Motherhood sort of puts things into perspective, and it's bout real life, and life is about people, what we give, what we take, what we share.

Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.

Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an endlessly interesting way to have the experience of writing memoir.

Different presidents have different strengths, they bring different life experiences.

The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying it and all that.

Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.

The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is our own attitude.