Quotes About Perception

It's some twisted, limited, grocery-store mentality, where people have to be dairy products or vegetables or frozen foods for us to be able to understand them and feel safe. Maybe we've just become such mega-consumers that we can't deal with anything that's slightly inconvenient (basically, anything that requires thought). I was the tofu amidst the Baking Products and Cleaning Supplies.

Admittedly, guilt can be my default setting. After a social gathering, I'm often left with a vague sense of wrongdoing that I try to pinpoint the source of. Had I laughed insensitively or slighted someone unintentionally? And I always feel accused in Nordstrom. The saleswomen look at my jeans and inexpensive haircut and I'm sure they're thinking I'm about to slip a pair of earrings into my purse. I feel guilty when I eat white bread and when I don't recycle.

Words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.

Her look was easy to read—she couldn't understand, we'd always been able to talk, she was hurt. Mothers can give all of that to you in one brief look.

We can't get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood.

Elijah's wearing white shorts and a bright green shirt and plaid sneakers. People who dress like they're in a perfume ad shouldn't be trusted, in my opinion. They're disingenuous with floral overtones.

In terms of power, beauty is like glass, isn't it? Shining, but transparent and easily marred.

Kasih sayang itu norak, kalau benar-benar dicermati.

History can feel so distant sometimes, and other times, close enough that you can feel it right inside of you, close enough that you can see it moving away from you and toward you at the same time.

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.

When you discover the difference between consciousness and the brain, you will discover yourself.

How you react to the issue, IS the issue.

you don't know until you know!

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, unless it is the burning bush, in that case the value of your bird just went up!!

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

There's nothing like the gift of understanding.

All is as we are.

Perspective is the key to everything.

The greatest artists see what is invisible to the masses.

Listen to yourself and you are heard.

How you feel after watching something indicates not what you watched but where you are at.

One is far better off feeling than one is thinking.

You paint the picture of your surroundings. Paint it beautifully.