Quotes About Perception

We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.

Short judgments make long friends.

A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly.

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

They are wrong who say that love is blind. On the contrary, nothing - not even the smallest detail - escapes the eyes; one sees everything in the loved one, notices everything; but melts it all into one flame with the great and simple: I love you.

Anyone can look at other's eyes, but Lovers can see into each other's souls through the eyes

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.

The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?

A kiss: To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; to an old maid, charity.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another