Quotes About Perspective

Because you and Al have all the truth with you over there. Don't know what I'm talking about, I guess. My apologies to you who knows better.

What good is always being happy? Sadness hints at the possibility of a future reward.

If there is cheesy packaging around a universal truth, does that make the universal truth inside any less valid?

In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.

You've presented a reality that not everyone has chosen to accept.

Dear God, Help me to stop worrying about the future and the things I can not control. I always allow myself to become overwhelmed and I miss out on enjoying this amazing and wonderful life that I have been given. I miss out as I worry what might be. Help me to see more of you. God and less of me, please show me the way and direct my steps.

You get educated by traveling.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

I gave my father $100 and said, "Buy yourself something that will make your life easier." So he went out and bought a present for my mother.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

In my real life, I see people who are really enjoying their lives – I mean, really enjoying their lives – and they take joy in their daily obligations; they just do. And I believe that at a certain point, you've got to choose to be that way. You choose to approach your life that way. Or it's all kind of a drag until Friday.

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

"No matter where you are, you will always be looking at the same moon as I am."

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful.

When people ask me what is more important, food or love, I don't answer because I'm eating.

"The secret of success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded."

I don't think women are better than men, but I do think that men are worse than women.

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born and start using sleep deprivation to torture you.

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.