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Quotes About Perspective

Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.
~ Jimmy Buffett
A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
~ Burton Hill
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.
~ Darcey Bussell
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
~ Dorothea Lange
No artist tolerates reality.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life
~ Pharrell Williams
A different language is a different vision of life.
~ Federico Fellini
What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
~ Louise Erdrich
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
~ Heinz Kohut
Things do happen and it's not you that changes, it's your life that changes
~ Perrie Edwards
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.
~ Lou Holtz
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
~ William Goldman
Today, let's be determined to see blessings in the midst of things that seem like burdens.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.
~ John F. Kennedy
Numbers have life; they're not just symbols on paper.
~ Shakuntala Devi
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The fish will be the last to discover water.
~ Jerome Bruner
You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!
~ Eddie Murphy
The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.
~ Clark Gable
Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?
~ Harold S. Kushner
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
~ Barry Switzer
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
~ Stephen Covey