Quotes About Perspective

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

You shouldn't believe everything. What you see isn't always right. Is what you think truly right? Please, think about it again. A heart that obediently accepts things is fine, but shouldn't you question something just once? The truth is in a place you can't see.

The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's own or real life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

The question shouldn't be is there life after death but is there life before death...

Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live.

On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear view mirror

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

LIfe? LIfe? It's Death that makes life worth living for.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.