Quotes About Perspective

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta have it scale.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Feeling dissatisfied over what life presents in any given moment is like standing before the whole ocean and getting negative because part of you believes there?s only one place to enter its waters where it?s possible to enjoy yourself.

Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night