Quotes About Perception

she bid me to look out on the lawn at the leper girls who were running on lame feet, playing croquet with crippled hands. "There is beauty," she said, "in the least beautiful of things.

Dad instantly set out his stall:he wanted a big dog, a 'man dog',a dog that if it was human would enjoy a pint and stare at the barmaid's arse

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

People don't need to know all the details of how a complex mechanism actually works in order to use it, so they create a cognitive shorthand for explaining it. This explanation is powerful enough to cover their interactions with it but doesn't necessarily reflect its actual inner mechanics.

Memory is so subjective. We all remember in a visceral, emotional way, and so even if we agree on the facts—what was said, what happened where and when—what we take away and store from a moment, what we feel about it, can vary radically.

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

If that was your reality, I think you'd have a completely different attitude about the value of life, including your own. Mostly,

You can know something in your head but not in your heart.

I have come to realise that no one sees the world quite the way you do. Even with a great deal of shared experience there is always a shift of a few degrees in perspective, and no one's pain is ever the same as yours.

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

Crendendo Vides: By Believing, One Sees

It is you," Ren murmured. His words unsettled her: Not for the first time, he seemed to know more about her than she did about herself.

those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut.

When people don't have access to facts, they invent what they'd like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear.

She was nearly twenty, with dark hair, darker eyes, and a hint of something deeper within. There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate. Anyone glancing at her would have thought her soft: a serious error of judgment.

She had seen this man before, in a daydream. In a nightmare.

Acknowledge beauty when you see it. Even if its appearance disturbs you, surely you can admire the skill that went into its design.

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.

knowing how the mind works isn't going to change how your mind works. Even

Passion is a meta-emotion — an emotion that is felt only after observing other emotions over time.

We are much better able to evaluate someone else's behavior than we are our own.