Quotes About Perspective

Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Invite people into your life who don't look or act like you. You might find they challenge your assumptions and make you grow.

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You're just telling yourself the story of how it doesn't.

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.

This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

It's only human to have low moments in life because if you don't, then you won't feel the high, exciting times.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

No matter what amount of negativity you are presented with, 5 minutes from now could be the best moment of your life.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

Why do people measure life by the years instead of how good the years were?