Quotes About Perspective

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

I try to walk on the sunny side of the street.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

... sometimes in life, you either laugh or you cry. And I prefer to laugh.

Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.

I change the world, the world changes me.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side.

Understand that workaholics aren't productive people. Quite the contrary. A workaholic is someone who takes twice as much time to accomplish half as much as a Lazy Achiever.

There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot.

The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have.

The Most Creative Shortcut to Success Is to Reevaluate What Success Means to You.

If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?

Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in the mood. Life is its own raison d'etre.