Life Perspective Sayings

#1. Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others.

Dannion Brinkley

#2. Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.

Chriswell Freeman

#3. From a quality-of-life perspective, psychologists have found that the people who have the most flow in their lives are the happiest people on earth.

Steven Kotler

#4. Life's a short trip. You'll find out.

Rodney Dangerfield

#5. Your life is a print-out of your thoughts.

Steve Maraboli

#6. Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

Gelila Bekele

#7. Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.

John Kasich

#8. Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles.It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.

James Patterson

#9. I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.

Reinhold Messner

#10. You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

Craig Venter

#11. I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective.

John Cleese

#12. The huge problems we deal with every day are actually really small. We're so focused on what bothers us
that we don't even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective.

Susane Colasanti

#13. Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#14. I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective ... it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you've been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

Beyonce Knowles

#15. The blessing of a tragedy is that it puts your life into perspective.

Lisa Papademetriou

#16. Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#17. Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

Brian Greene

#18. I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

Nancy Reagan

#19. Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.

Richard Carlson

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

Whoopi Goldberg

#21. There were a lot of little triggers that made me realize that life is now; life is happening while we're preoccupied with stupidities. Of course, growing. Of course, becoming a mother and understanding life from another perspective.

Thalia

#22. Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with brief moments of joy. Be alive to the abundant potential that surrounds you so that you live a life of peace and happiness with periods of challenging growth.

Richard G. Scott

#23. Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.

Max Lucado

#24. I want to provide a well-rounded perspective of life.

Coolio

#25. We live our entire lives thinking we know those closest to us. But do we ever really?

Hilary Grossman

#26. Love is better than hate.
Faith is greater than fear.
Having positive vibes is better than holding on to negative ones. Learn to stay positive. Choose faith over fear and love over hate. Change your perspective. Change your life and change your world.

Kemi Sogunle

#27. The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.

Michaelangelo

#28. Before you next tread on an ant I ask that you imagine life from that ant's perspective.

Tim Rees

#29. I will never tell another person, "I don't understand you ... " and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability.

C. JoyBell C.

#30. Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences over time by connecting them as a developing, continuing story.

Jacqui Stedmon

#31. I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspective of life in general.

Miguel

#32. The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

Barney Frank

#33. This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.
He is the Wise who knows not.
And his footsteps on the road click tic-tac, tic-tac

Cristiane Serruya

#34. There are also several practical aspects to learning more about
our eternal home. Having a better perspective on the purpose of
our lives helps us to handle difficult times better. It helps us focus
on what is truly important. It also helps us to enjoy this life more
fully.

Vance C. Kessler

#35. In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by the rush of our everyday life, we might shrug it off today, but 100 years from now, historians will be discussing this precedent.

Megan Smolenyak

#36. And if ever you need encouragement, remember at least two sober facts which nobody can rationally deny: that you are a new and unique living force in nature, and that you can, by taking thought and pursuing it, become more and more intensely alive.

John Steeksma

#37. If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.

Shannon L. Alder

#38. The radical biblical perspective is to see death not as the termination of life but as the gateway to life.

John R.W. Stott

#39. And I could find other excuses to get out and sit on the crisp grass and look out over the airy roof of Yorkshire. It was like taking time out of life. Time to get things into perspective and assess my progress.

James Herriot

#40. I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better.

Jennifer Lopez

#41. Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.

Cameron Mathison

#42. The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

J.R. Rim

#43. Life, in her experience, had a kind of velvet luster. You looked at yourself from one perspective and all you saw was weirdness. Move your head a little bit, though, and everything looked reasonably normal.

Jonathan Franzen

#44. Spent much of my life in Lyme with my eyes fixed to the ground in search of fossils. Such hunting can limit a person's perspective.

Tracy Chevalier

#45. The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.

Joan D. Chittister

#46. Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul.

Neale Donald Walsch

#47. Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.

Spiros Zodhiates

#48. Being brave is about the everyday points of bravery that when taken together and viewed from a collective perspective make for an extraordinary life of love.

Andrea T. Goeglein

#49. Fear is and has always been dead. It's how we picture it that makes fear come to life.

George Cooke

#50. Life will not, it will never, make sense to your mind. The secret is to see life from the soul's perspective; to add to the mind's experience the soul's wisdom, awareness, and total knowing.

Neale Donald Walsch

#51. Ever since I was a teenager, I was always kind of, like, checking myself. You know, like, "Come on man, don't get your head all swollen. Life and time itself will give you perspective on what you're doing." So, that's actually what's always been a reminder in my own head.

Chuck D

#52. I won't change and my perspective won't change. I want to continue my life the way I live it, and I'm not going to let anything stop me from doing that. It isn't all about acting. There's a lot more to life than Hollywood.

Elijah

#53. In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

Albert Camus

#54. Conflict never lies between two people. It always lies between rigid beliefs about the other person and the contradictions they show you. Conflict is always an inside job, but until you recognise this, it is easier to blame the other person.

Esther Veltheim

#55. Occupation: Writer
Occupational Hazard: Carpel tunnel
Solution: Wrist guards to bed or my hands do all the sleeping
Perspective: I've decided my wrist guards have turned me into a Ninja Superhero that hides in the shadows

Christy Hall

#56. You've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ...

John Geddes

#57. We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.

Tony Stewart

#58. I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

Natasha Tsakos

#59. Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.

Teju Cole

#60. Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.

Alain De Botton

#61. Sometimes you just have to stop and take in your surroundings. Really look at where you are in life, otherwise it's just going to pass you by. Regret is a heavy word to live with." - Riley

Justine Winter

#62. Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

Taylor Hanson

#63. Sometimes you need to look at life from a different perspective.

Inas Chahboun

#64. If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life, we must allow our populace a communion with nature in areas of more or less wilderness condition.

Arthur Carhart

#65. Life is about perspective and I have a different perspective from most. I am not trying to be in Hip Hop at 43 and looking like an old man. I always enjoyed business and my independence. I am an Entrepreneur.

Damon Dash

#66. Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I'm in better shape than they are.

Margaret Atwood

#67. I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.

Alexandra Robbins

#68. Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs - and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.

Pawan Mishra

#69. You are the ocean; everything else is just waves and wind.

Steve Maraboli

#70. I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#71. It's not always the case that things will fall into your lap or that life will be great, but it's all about perspective and having a positive outlook. If something goes wrong you say: "That happened for a reason, what can I learn from that and how can I grow?"

Chris Pine

#72. You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

Orison Swett Marden

#73. There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

#74. There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship.

Erwin McManus

#75. From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me ... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.

Danielle De Niese

#76. Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#77. Perspective, we can only get it when we look beyond this life and realize we're not alone

Kevin Albright

#78. When God's first in your life and your family's second, the perspective is that the platform as player is for the purpose of lifting up His name and glorifying Him in all you do. No matter what the platform is, that's the goal and that's the prayer before tonight's game and before every game.

Luke Zeller

#79. I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

Steve Gleason

#80. It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth - all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#81. I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.

Reese Witherspoon

#82. To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.

Edward Albee

#83. For me to simply tell you to find your life's purpose, would only worsen your anxiety, not make it better. But that's not what I want you to do. I simply want you to realise that there is something to be found. That your calling is still out there, and that's why you might be unhappy.

S.R. Crawford

#84. You know, how there are some people who have no time for small things? Pettiness, I mean. In the way they let things go - because whatever huge, life-changing thing happened to them gave them a perspective most of us can't ever have.

Debbie Howells

#85. Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective

Farley Maglaya

#86. I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.

Brett Favre

#87. There is nothing wrong with being on the bottom once in awhile, but don't stay there, women! New positions will give you new perspective, and new perspective will give you new experiences, and new experiences will give you a meaningful life.

Toni Sorenson

#88. By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.

Rabih Alameddine

#89. What has been given is a new perspective on living life, and what has been taken away is the illusion of limitless life and the belief in a personal specialness exempting us from natural law.

Irvin D. Yalom

#90. I have not found my perspective on my career change. What I have found is that my life in general has been more fulfilling. To be able to influence an individual's life and on who they become as a person is a very rewarding feeling.

Phil Mickelson

#91. When, as the researchers put it, "life's fragility is primed," people's goals and motives in their everyday lives shift completely. It's perspective, not age, that matters most. Tolstoy

Atul Gawande

#92. I love Dior. I've been wearing some of the really beautiful structured pieces - I love a deep neck and how it accentuates a woman in that area. And, of course, Louis Vuitton. I've honestly never met someone like Nicolas. He has a really fresh perspective on life in general.

Selena Gomez

#93. Certain things give you another perspective in life.

Jose Carreras

#94. It is often difficult to answer the same question repeatedly, but it is more difficult for them to realize they never seem to have answers to life's questions. Try to look at life from the perspective with which your loved one is living. It will help you see things differently.

Carol Howell

#95. It is clear that any sexual relationship other than that between a legally wedded heterosexual husband and wife is sinful. The divine mandate of marriage between man and woman puts in perspective why homosexual acts are offensive to God. They repudiate the gift and the Giver of eternal life.

Victor L. Brown

#96. I entrain myself (when I remember to)
by tuning in to higher frequencies
in the ether, in my soul, everywhere I go,
always accessible, always helpful
for obtaining a higher perspective
in a matter of minutes.

Jay Woodman

#97. An old person knows what it's like to be young, but a young person doesn't know what it's like to be old. There's no substitute for life experience.

Eleanor Brownn

#98. Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired.

Kerry Washington

#99. What, seen in the perspective of life, is the significance of morality?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#100. It's just so cool when you meet people who are different than you are. That can give you a different perspective, a viewpoint on life, or inspire you. I mean, what would the world be like if we were all the same? I think it would be very boring.

Ciara