Quotes About Perspective

You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a woman's life are ages 35 to 45.

I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.

I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life.

Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.

I'm sure, to many people, my life is not that exciting, but to me every day is an adventure.

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

It's just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can't even imagine and has gone through horror that I can't even imagine.

When I look around I think this, this is good enough; And I laugh at whatever life brings because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up, I just trip over things.

You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.

Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

All my life, everybody has seen me a certain way. What do you see?

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.