Quotes About Perception

Life is simple but we insist on complicating it by dwelling and acting on our negative thoughts.

Being bitter would reduce the sweetness you generate with your actions, it's like an invisible mask that you don each time you interact with someone.

When you become my Motivation, my Inspiration, I look at the same world Differently.

To change your physical surroundings you must first overcome them in your mind.

Those who invest more in their inner beauty tend to have more confidence in their lives than those who tend to invest more on their outer beauty.

Your problems are only as big as you make them. They can seem like a ripple, or a tidal wave. But you're always the only one who creates it.

Do not see the world as it is, see it as it should be.

In every situation, there are always two stories the story you see and the story God sees.

Awkwardness is a warning against complacency. A connection with the incomprehensible achieved only through immersion in contemporary life, a moment of awareness of the gap between your perception and understanding. It is the urbane corollary to the antique sublime: the social vista that slaps you in the face with the breadth of what you still don't understand.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Even though I have learned so much about life, sometimes it feels like I haven't learned anything at all.

What disappoints us most in life is the picture in our heads of how it's supposed to be.

Sometimes we let other people's reality become our own. The circumstances need to be studied to thus follow a philosophy.

Miracles and wonders happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you will see them everywhere.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind. Others seem to be bothering you, but it's not others, it's your own mind.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Don't expect to get what you give. Not everyone has a heart like you.

Things deemed impossible in the past that later proved otherwise, doesn't change the fact that it was possible all along.

There's nothing ugly, everything and everyone is beautiful. Beauty is all around us but not everyone sees it.

The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.

You are not seeing reality. You are seeing what you are believing. Stop believing and you will see more reality.

If you see life as a battle, then a battle is what you will get; the struggle ends when you let go to seek peace instead. Life is a reflection of what you think, if your thoughts are filled with negativity, the world you see will be the same.

Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.