Quotes About Perspective

my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate. And maybe if she'd let me eat a little more sugar, I'd have come out sweeter.

I love in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are. My mother has trouble remembering my name.

My mother says I have boring percussion.

Any man that has had a mother, has a sister, wants to be a father will find this [movie Bad Moms] incredibly eye opening and hysterical and funny.

People often ask me when there's going to be a Mrs. Zach Braff. It's a confusing question sometimes because many people don't realize that my mother is named Mrs. Zach Braff.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!

I do think that the birth of my daughter was sort of a rebirth for me. It made me look at life in a completely new way. And that made me appreciate life in a way I don't think I ever had before.

He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.

And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

A child embarrassed by his mother," she said, "is just a child who hasn't lived long enough.

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.

One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.

When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.

Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.