Quotes About Distortion

Most relevant for the purposes here, one lucky accident of this feature of memory is that pain-then-pleasure is recalled as better than pleasure-then-pain. Because of this, even if the amount of pain, taken in isolation, is the same as the amount of pleasure, if the pain comes first, the distortions of memory decrease the pain and increase the pleasure, improving the whole experience.

Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams

No podemos tratar a la Biblia como una serie de conocimientos terapéuticos. Esto distorsiona el mensaje y no dará lugar a un cambio perdurable. Si un sistema puede darnos lo que necesitamos, Jesús nunca hubiera venido.

That's why it's difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

Dysmorphia is when someone looks in the mirror, and sees something else. While I studied my own whatever I was, I decided that maybe everyone has at least a touch of dysmorphia; maybe it's impossible for anyone to ever truly know what they look like.

Many distortion campaigns seem to revolve around either real or perceived abandonment, loss, and rejection

In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

he told a story about the days when he was a reporter himself and how he had gotten so close to story that he finally couldn't write it...When I stared at something long enough, the lines blurred and I could no longer see it for what it was. One thing became another.

They might be different species, but it was easy enough to see your own kind in a mirror, however great the distortion.

Reality confounds image.

which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.

He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.