Quotes About Perspective

For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction.

Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.

In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.

At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.

A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].

Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.

Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!

I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.

Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.

Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.

I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version?" Then I just follow my nose.

Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.

I think a day in your life on which nothing bad happens may be a wonderful day, but it probably isn't going to be the basis of a story.

He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.