Quotes About Perspective

Life and death played out before my very eyes. You don't see these things if you clean your room regularly.

There really isn't much use in getting into a pissing contest since I have to sit down to pee anyway.

My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world and that's not just my opinion - it's hers.

she: Before we got married you told me you were well-off. he: I was and I didn't know it.

Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.

I laugh because your pain is amusing.

I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that's good.

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.

Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

We're all just memories of our future selves.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

The past is only the future with the lights on

Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.

For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.

Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

I'm not white. Why should I care about the future of white societies