Quotes About Perception

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the person inside your head.

I'd thought I remembered her perfectly. But it is much better to see her imperfectly, to see something new every time she moves.

Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.

When people say love is blind, they act like that's a good thing. But some people find their way around in the darkness a little better than others.

Migraines Are Only in Your Mind.

Yeah, but the truth isn't very helpful if people don't believe it.

Supongo que no creo que estas cosas puedan ser fáciles, aunque tampoco veo por qué tendrían que ser difíciles.

Adults can talk all they want about youth feeling invincible.

You and I are walking in the snow. Why are you walking backwards? I ask. You point in the direction we came from. So they'll think that's where I'm going. You point to where we're going. And that's where I'm from.

Sostén. No quiero ser el fuerte, pero tampoco quiero ser el débil. ¿Por qué siempre da la impresión de que hay que ser uno u otro? Cuando nos abrazamos, siempre hay uno que aprieta con un poco más de fuerza.

How did you know it was me?" I have to ask. "The way you looked at me," she says. "It couldn't have been anyone else." This

What we are saying is that we did see. And what did we do? We acted blind, and we moved on. That is not the gospel.

What's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?

Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

love sometimes causes you to do stupid things. And even when the lessons are clear to everyone else around you, sometimes you have a hard time seeing them yourself. When people say love is blink, they act like that's a good thing. But some people find their way around in the darkness a little better than others.

am always happiest when I am just attractive enough. Meaning: other people won't find me unattractive. Meaning: I make a positive impression. Meaning: my life is not defined by my attractiveness, because that brings its own perils as well as its own rewards.

Twenty feet away. Even in the crowded hallway,there is something in her that radiates out to me

He thought it was love. When, in fact, it was like three hundred ninety-fifth in line for love.

Silence equals death, we'd say. And underneath that would be the assumption—the fear—that death equaled silence.

He looks like a lost puppy, but has the heart of a bitch.

The phrase rush to judgment is a silly one. When it comes to judgment, most of us don't have to rush. We don't have to even leave the couch. Our judgment is so easy to reach for.

How much of my body is really me? My face is me, for sure. Anyone who looked at my face would know it was me.Even with my hair wet and drawn back it's me. But after that? If I showed myself a picture of myself from the shoulders down, would I be sure it was me? Could I identify myself that way? I close my eyes and ask myself what my feet look like. I only kind of know. Same with my hands. I have no idea what my back looks like. I let it define me, but I can't even define it.

I wake up the next morning in Beyoncé's body. Not the real Beyoncé. But a body remarkably like hers. All the curves in all the right places.

He points to a hot guy in a skintight yellow tank top—or some such article of clothing. You know, the kind where the guy looks more naked than if he were actually naked?