Quotes About Perception

the tongue, for instance, is privileged with information indifferent to words.

Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who is female/black/disabled/gay wants this not to be their defining characteristic; you are supposed to be blind to it. But then, on other occasions, you are supposed to observe special sensitivity, or show special respect.

I apologise if you all know this, but the point is many, many people do not. Why else would they open a large play area for children, hang up a sign saying "Giant Kid's Playground", and then wonder why everyone stays away from it? (Answer: everyone is scared of the Giant Kid.)

No one else understands us 7th sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes, we are often aggressively instructed to 'get a life' by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves.

Myths and superstitions have power over us only to the extent that we believe them, but when we believe, we live completely under their spell

I always thought a laughing philosopher a much wiser man than the sniveling one (cmizdrenje)

Lucern felt himself "She called my erections wonderful?" Entienne just gaped, then raised a fist to knock on his brother's forehead as if it were a door "Hello! Earth calling Luc! She thinks it's rigor mortis.

Rejection isn't just an emotion we feel. It's a message that's sent to the core of who we are, causing us to believe lies about ourselves, others, and God. We connect an event from today to something harsh someone once said. That person's line becomes a label. The label becomes a lie. And the lie becomes a liability in how we think about ourselves and interact in every future relationship.

People aren't thinking about us nearly as much as we might think they are.

Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did.

We can't live in an alternate reality and expect what's right in front of us to get better.

How a woman thinks is often how she lives.

Proverbs 23:7 reminds us, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (NLV). We

The spotlight never fixes our insecurities. It only magnifies what we thought popularity would cover up.

After all, how a woman thinks is often how she lives.

Don't let people's compliments go to your head, and don't let their criticisms go to your heart. The degree to which you do either of these things is the degree to which you'll be ruled by what other people think of you.

What we look for is what we will see, what we see determines our perspective, and our perspective determines our reality.

Which has really gotten me thinking about all the many times I assign thoughts to others that they never actually think. I hold them accountable to harsh judgments they never make. And I own a rejection from them they never gave me.

I came across a quote from the book Art and Fear that says it best: "Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did."3 And the gap never stays silent.

when you and I roll around in thoughts that stink, it affects the atmosphere everywhere we go.

How hard something is often depends on your vantage point.

As long as I suspect that honesty's intention is to expose me and hurt me, it will always feel like a dangerous thing.

God's goodness by how my life felt at any given time.

all the many times I assign thoughts to others that they never actually think. I hold them accountable to harsh judgments they never make. And I own a rejection from them they never gave me.