Quotes About Perspective

do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.

Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.

But we cannot unbraid the story of another person's life and take out all the parts that don't suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.

Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all.

Every time I feel depressed or frustrated, I just have to drive on the highway during rush hours, then I feel very grateful I don't have to do this everyday.

The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.

You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

We're all born, and if you're going to live to be elderly, you'll have gone through a life journey different than anyone else's. It's unique to you, but you'll have some common themes.

I've lived in a bubble my whole life. I never thought someone with those kind of views, who came across to me so ignorant every time he speaks, could ever be elected.

I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life.

Don't let your age control your life... Let your life control your age.

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

When I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

I've reached a point in my life where going to the supermarket is a day out.

Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.