Quotes About Perspective

In the Mongol perspective, challenges choose us, but we choose how to respond. Destiny brings the opportunities and the misfortunes, and the merit of our lives derives from those unplanned moments.

Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it to be.

IT'S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward.

I could now see her the way she actually is and not in the distorted way my mind presented her to me when I was trying to find a reason to reject her and move on

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.

I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.

A man is a fool to live in hopes of a better tomorrow. I have a thousand, better ways today to spend what time remains ahead of me, and I have brighter, lighter and more pleasant places in which to spend it.

what reality is formed into.

I no longer think time is passing. I now think reality is continuing.

Every day affords individual people moments when they can shake off everything that is false and can view things from their perspective.

Money for me today does not really matter.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.

Time feels as if it is on the other side of me now, way over, out across the sea, like another country. I don't live inside it any more and it doesn't rule me.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

An average guy makes a date with a girl. It costs him $100, $200. I make a date with a girl, it costs me nothing. I come up to her house. She wants to go out. I let her go! What's my business? I have to follow her around?

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

The disadvantage of short term is a wrong perspective based on this generation's need for instant results.

United States—and unfairly, I feel—the greatest purveyor of violence on earth.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten lost.

Henry Flagler: "Do unto others as they would do unto you—and do it first.