Quotes About Perception

She didn't think she was better than hearing people, simply equal. She didn't want more rights than they had, she wanted the same. She didn't want to change the way they led their lives, she just wanted to be left alone to live hers. It was draining to constantly be looked at as deficient, handicapped, in need of fixing. Other people's opinions—that was the handicap she faced, not her hearing loss!

Robert pointed at Lacey and then made the sign for "hearing," but instead of making it at his mouth, he made it at his forehead. It was a sign given to Deaf people who acted like hearing people. It wasn't a compliment.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Where do shadows fall when there is only light.

Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

There are no frigid women, only clumsy men.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.

The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

The most happy marriage I can picture would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me?

We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

New love is so beautiful, time just makes it ugly.

Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

St. Peter scold me saying son, where have you been? And he saw me with you and asked why are you with that person? and I said to him sorry St. Peter, I though it was heaven.