Quotes About Perception

When I was four years old, I kept telling my mother that the little boy in our house was stealing things.

Could something that looked so wrong on the outside turn out to be undeniably right?

It's called acting. It's not all that difficult to be the person people expect you to be. It's harder to remember who your really are.

I've always wondered whether she sees what I do when I look at her.

I die. Before I die my body turns hair-side-in. People come from everywhere to see the insides of themselves. But the sight makes them lose the will, and all die. O the embarrassment.

Think of it as a parallel universe. But maybe it's the real one, and we're in a dream.

Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there … the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

Strategia fundamental? era urm?toarea: în primul rând, nu d?deai nimic pe gratis. Un lucru pe care l-am înv??at de la Statul Universal al Bun?st?rii este c? oamenii subevalueaz? lucrurile pentru care nu pl?tesc.

all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

gave it the illusion of being there … the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss -ssso much compressed wisdom.

Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better. That's innocence.

It's different for girls.

Women must be weak to love a baby enough to hold it to their breast. Women's hearts must be weak to sacrifice for their children. Women must be weak to take the seed of the man. Because women are weak, a woman cannot keep the truth. Love triumphs over truth. So a woman's words are lies." 

When someone shows you who they really are, believe them.

It didn't matter if they were black or white or Mexican, they all grew up with a sense of entitlement that was sickening. Everybody owed them something. They assumed they could talk to the law the same way they talked to their friends because the world had gone soft and they knew it. Everything was tolerated because nobody was at fault.

But you know how women are.  They're not happy unless they're complaining about something.

You scan the cheering bleachers for the strange boy's face: handsome, reserved, with the eye patch, a little dramatic, a little scary. You finally find him sitting there in the middle of the sixth row. He is wearing a dark green army jacket and is staring back at you. He looks sad and beautiful, like a watercolor in a hospital room.

It would always be a put-on, high school or not, for the whole rest of the world, for the rest of our lives. You couldn't ever guess who someone was by the way they looked because, good or bad, the way they looked was always just a costume or an act. It was Halloween everyday, for most people anyway, just to feel like they weren't alone, to belong, just to keep being happy maybe.

Go to a goddamn priest if you wanna be lied to. I've seen too many of your kind slip back inside to fool myself. If you wanna think you're a new man, hell, that's fine. But don't think you're looking any different in anyone else's mind.

Commandment 7: It's important to look for changes in a person's behavior that can signal changes in thoughts, emotions, interest, or intent.

back of the other person. Unfortunately, I know a lot of people who are reluctant to do this and/or feel very awkward when

The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing (..) You see, but you do not observe.