Quotes About Perception

I don't think I'm crazy, but then again, define crazy.

Jim Butcher, Ghost Story

Do animals understand the concept of dreams or do they think they enter another dimension when they get tired?

Yoga pants often answer questions I didn't ask.

We're clear, " she said. "You're kind of a psycho. I get that

When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves.

There is no such complicated situation which people could not make more complicated.

The main proof that you actually do not exist is that nobody ever criticizes you.

Boyfriend?"Her cheeks heated. "Yes.""Funny name.""What?" She frowned. "Ernest is a perfectly nice name.""Oh, I thought I heard you call him Ermine.

You look worse today than you did when you had two blackeyes.""Why, thank you, Tyler. You always say the sweetest things.

Could he actually be a decent guy?Hard to imagine.He was pretty to look at, though, she thought. Boys weren't objectified nearly enough, and turnabout is always fair play.

But at the time I thought that if I could just get the world to see me the way I saw myself then my body wouldn't be the thing you walked away thinking about. I wouldn't be that fat girl.

I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.

People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

I've learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.