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Quotes About Perception

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
~ Longchenpa
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
~ Helen Keller
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
~ Rod Serling
In a malleable world where everything from atoms to cells is changing to match our beliefs, we're limited only by the way we think of ourselves in that world.
~ Gregg Braden
I believe that eyes are very important motifs. Thats something that can discern the peace and love.
~ Yayoi Kusama
I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.
~ James Patrick McDonald
Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.
~ Hamza Yusuf
You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If there's no world 'out there' what are you reacting to? Ask yourself that question every moment of every day when your peace is disturbed.
~ Kenneth Wapnick
Now that I have created moe, men of the world will never know peace as they struggle with the pitfalls of 3D.
~ Satoshi Kon
If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.
~ Rumi
Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.
~ Gautama Buddha
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.
~ Jeremiah
The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light and Peace, did not men disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God.
~ Thomas Traherne
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
~ Alice Walker
All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.
~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
~ Marshall McLuhan
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
~ Noel Gallagher
The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your physical senses perceive - is the power to help heal this world miraculously.
~ Marianne Williamson
Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.
~ Hilary Mantel
Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you.
~ Jim George