Quotes About Perception

Whether you are in a street fight or confronting an invading army, appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.

But then, he calls many things mad that he does not care for. Perhaps that is easier than accepting them.

Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.

It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces everything man has made or ever will make.

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.

See, many people can recognize an enchanting world within every raindrop rested atop the petals of a blossoming pink dahlia, but fail to notice how captivating they can still be when sat upon faded glass.

Of course everyone's a person. But sometimes we act as if people were only labels. Like deaf, or blind, or lame. We forget about the person and only see the word.

If you're sorry for her, that means you're putting yourself above her. Anything can be terrible if we make it terrible, or if we let other people tell us how terrible it is.

I am aware that the woman sits on the floor with me, and my head is in her lap, but I can't see her anymore. I only feel her bones beneath my bones, holding me up. I strain to see, even though I feel the sun on my skin, coming through the window.

The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate.

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought," and "As a man thinketh, so he is.

The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.

Every reading is a misreading.

My nose remembers more than my eyes. The sharp oily smell of eucalyptus combines with afternoon dust from the hockey field. But my heart feels the different then and now.

Falling silent should be cultivated, the way the woods fall silent in the snow. Messages you can't send any other way can be heard.

Looking at a friend who has had a face lift is like reading a book with half the pages ripped out.

Il susino è sfiorito. Chioma verde di foglioline giovani. Nessuno adesso potrebbe sospettare la bellezza mozzafiato di prima. Così per tante donne vecchie che per pochi giorni soltanto sono state belle.

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.