Quotes About Viewing Life

#1. I think the best thing about being a writer is getting to dream. It's constantly viewing life through the "what if?" lens.

Kevin J. Fitzgerald

#2. Happiness is largely an attitude of mind, of viewing life from the right angle.

Dale Carnegie

#3. It's a very performative thing, grief. As with so much in modern life, I think there's a whole performative layer to what we do because we feel like there's a private TV show viewing our lives.

Darin Strauss

#4. The Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of terrorism, which is true.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#5. Viewing ecology through the lens of individual life histories or the life cycles of species makes it easy to grasp the Hindu conception of life as drama. Every creature and plant has a separate path of sustenance and survival on the way to their final dance with Shiva.

Richard J. Borden

#6. We must stop viewing ourselves as separate and disconnected from the rest of life, as if we are a special case and the laws of nature or karma do not apply to us.

Sharon Gannon

#7. [Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what the material might be. There is, indeed, no other experience in a child's life that permits quite so much intake while demanding so little outflow.

Marie Winn

#8. I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way of viewing my life was a healthy reaction to what I was seeing every day.

Assata Shakur

#9. He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#10. You know, we didn't want to kill anyone, but we knew that "Star Wars" is a generational tale. It always is. And for it to have some guts and some resonance and true stakes, I don't think that everyone could have come through the story unscathed.

J.J. Abrams

#11. I felt I was losing track of my physical location, rising above my body, viewing my life from a very distant point, hovering over it.

Zadie Smith

#12. Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Frank Herbert

#13. The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,
What perils past, what crosses to ensue,
Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.

William Shakespeare

#14. The Glory of this life is in viewing it as eternal.

Beth Johnson

#15. When you stop viewing chaos as an end state to be avoided and start viewing it as the beginning and ongoing default state of most things in life then that becomes something that is either terrifying or incredibly liberating.

Christian Cook

#16. Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

Wayne Dyer

#17. Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.

Richard Grasso

#18. I often think of life as a great darkened room with a mammoth-sized tapestry fastened to a stone wall. I believe true peace can be achieved not in viewing the whole tapestry, but in accepting without bitterness those portions we have been afforded the luxury to see.

Chip St. Clair

#19. I wonder if the World would feel differently about me if they could see how life feels viewing it like I do, through my eyes.

Tina J. Richardson

#20. A paradigm shift of viewing palliative care or hospice as a gift instead of seeing it as giving up has the potential to change the way we experience advanced age.

Lisa J. Shultz

#21. What will undo any boundary is the awareness that it is our vision, and not what we are viewing, that is limited.

James P. Carse

#22. As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

Ed Sheeran

#23. Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#24. Sometimes a fresh perspective is all you need to get a second wind on the revision process. Try viewing your material on a different medium; it will shed a new light on the inconsistencies in the dark.

V.S. Watson

#25. Have your new year's resolutions been a new beginning for you or have they just been different words on the same old beginning? Maybe now's the time to establish a new pattern of viewing your life fresh.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#26. At least if you were ignorant, you could do what you wanted, you had no idea what had been achieved in the past. You were free, instead of chewed at by bleeding impotence, dissolved away like a pearl in acid.

Hamza Wolf

#27. The only emotional connection of relevance is with my dog. My relationship with my dog, it's ridiculous.

Robert Pattinson

#28. My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.

Radka Donnell