Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boyd Rice

When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.

Cameron Crowe

Time puts things in proper perspective.

Chuck Palahniuk

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

Angie Martinez

Always keep things in perspective.

Ricky Schroder

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

Ralph Marston

When you find yourself ready to complain about what you don't have, stop for a moment to consider what incredible things you do have. And resolve to make the most of it all.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

Michael Urie

From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.

Michael Pollan

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into food.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

C. S. Lewis

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Elbert Hubbard

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Meg Stuart

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Alexander Lowen

The path to joy leads through despair.

Don Piper

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

Andrew Weil

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

Eike Batista

Nobody is happy alone. To share experiences is always a good thing.

Amy Tan

Too many good things all seem the same after a while.

Steve Guttenberg

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

Steven Pressfield

We show up. We do our best. Good things happen.

Steven Pressfield

Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.

Henry David Thoreau

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

Neal Shusterman

The good thing about being explosive is that no one can beat you.