Quotes about Perspective
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.
— Drew Barrymore
If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.
— Will Rogers
Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.
— William Law
I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.
— Maya Angelou
When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.
— Marty Rubin
What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
— CS Lewis
He wasn't one who wanted to look back on his life and say "I wish I spent more time in the office."
— Anonymous
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
If the world were clear, art would not exist.
— Albert Camus
Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
— Seth Godin
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that
— George Bernard Shaw