Quotes About Perception

To experience pain may not be a choice, but to suffer is a cognitive decision

Dr. Kat Domingo proclaims, "Enlightenment is not a process of learning, it is a process of unlearning.

My favorite definition of fear is "False Expectations Appearing Real

At the most elementary level of information processing, stimulation is energy, and my brain needed to be protected, and isolated from obnoxious sensory stimulation, which it perceived as noise.

And I must say, there was both freedom and challenge for me in recognizing that our perception of the external world, and our relationship to it, is a product of our neurological circuitry. For all those years of my life, I really had been a figment of my own imagination!

She could stand to think that life's experiences, good and bad, died with the body, but she couldn't bear to believe that the dreams vanished too, those exquisite flights of reverie that never actually happened. All those experiences you can have for free. How could they burn and turn to ash? She would disappear one day, too, both her flesh and the woman she dreamed herself to be.

You either photograph what you know, or you photograph what you want to know. But the giants photograph what they don't want to know.

For white males, it is impossible to have tits that are too big, and for black males, you cannot get the butt big enough. At the same time, if your tits are big enough, white guys don't care how big your butt is; and if your butt's big enough, black guys don't care what's happening around front.

sure, I've heard the weight-loss gurus spouting their "nothing tastes as good as being thin feels" mantra, and as I've said before—BULLSHIT. The times in my life when I have been thin, I enjoyed it well enough, but trust me, PLENTY of stuff tastes WAY better than being thin feels. For that matter, come to think of it, FEELING FULL FEELS better than being thin does.

Why do men think they can get away with it? Because they're men.

But you were the one who came to see it! You said it was just what you were looking for!" Her voice rising—and not in an I-fancy-you way—Ginny said, "You said it was perfect!" He blinked, nonplussed. "It is perfect. For Laurel." Frantically, Ginny ran back through everything he'd told her. "No, hang on, you said your flat was too small…

It made me realize that Beatrice had changed; that she did not pull her wagon so much as she got taken for rides.

The older he got, the less he believed and then the less he believed the more capable he was of believing. Such a cool paradox. He said.

My mom told me that I should trust the man who could see the sorrow behind my smile, the love behind my anger, and the reasons behind my silence.

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it." – Chloe Traeger

Honest to God, she was the noisiest woman he'd ever been shot at with.

But the problem is, people tend to assign you the role of the person you are at your worst, you know?

Let me Guess-you lost the coin toss with Dell, which left you stuck with me. Only you don't know how to tell me this because you're a penis-carrying human and can't figure out how to communicate with a mere vagina.

In his world, people never questioned him. And it was a good place to be, his world. Apparently she hadn't gotten the memo.

Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren't are inaccessible." PHOEBE TRAEGER

It wasn't entirely his fault that he was so emotionally challenged, she thought, putting a hand on his jaw. "You're so pretty, Joe. It's really a shame that you're such a dumbass.

A hint about women,' Mick said to Cliff. 'Never in the history of all history has telling a woman to calm down ever calmed one down.

By the age of thirty-five, women have only a few taste buds left: one for alcohol, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

Women might not like to admit their age, but men don't like to act theirs.