Quotes About Perspective

The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)

Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I'm a very lucky person. I'm an idiot, and I've shoveled through life rather nicely so far, so I don't feel like I deserve good treatment.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

If you only had an hour to sum your whole life up, would you spend that hour saying that an hour ain't enough?

You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality.

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist.

Make life an art rather than art from life.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime.

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.