Quotes About Perception

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.

Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid.

People say that every person plays the lead role in the movie of their own lives. I don't. I play a side character even in my own life's movie. ~ Mrigank Kashyap

These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle.

Reverence is an attitude of honoring life. Reverence automatically brings forth patience. Reverence permits non-judgemental justice. Reverence is a perception of the soul.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

A hibernating snail doe not necessarily mean it is dead

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.