Quotes About Perception

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

You'll see it when you believe it.

loving people live in a loving world.hostile people live in a hostile world.same world.

There is no such thing as a dog

We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.

A myriad bubbles were floating on the surface of a stream. 'What are you?' I cried to them as they drifted by. 'I am a bubble, of course' nearly a myriad bubbles answered, and there was surprise and indignation in their voices as they passed. But, here and there, a lonely bubble answered, 'We are this stream', and there was neither surprise nor indignation in their voices, but just a quiet certitude.

Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.

Men and women were able to reinvent themselves, and to derive strange new pleasures from pain and humiliation and self-distortion. Who was to say that it was right or that it was wrong?

Bareheaded. No cap. Instead of crisp whites, a peasant blouse. "You're not a nurse.

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.

Every proverb speaketh sooth; Dreams and omens mask the truth.

The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at.

It was all horribly ironic that she felt like she would need to be insane to believe the proof that she had never been crazy.

If only her problems were as simple as dealing with a handful of townspeople with pitchforks...

Jillian had chosen their cutest dresses that made grown woman start talking in abnormally high voices. ("Oh, just look at you! Aren't you just so cute!" This wouldn't be so worrisome if it wasn't the same voice that women used with puppies.)

It's like God is trying to tell us something when the most beautiful people in the world are racially mixed.

Anyone as stupidly brave as Atsumori is not going to understand Kenichi I was not stupid. Odds were that I would have drowned; I was in full armor.

My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.

A painting is more than the sum of the parts," he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

My grandfather stood beside me and looked across the street, too. "No, Bryce," he said softly. "She's the same as she's always been; you're the one who's changed." He clapped his hand on my shoulder and whispered, "And son, from here on out, you'll never be the same again.