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Quotes About Perception

I have almost done with harridans, and shall soon become old enough to fall in love with girls of fourteen
~ Jonathan Swift
I can't fall in love with anyone, I make men believe what they want to believe. from Moulin Rouge
~ Nicole Kidman
And besides, when you love somebody, you mustn't listen to what they say. They say things to hurt you because they're afraid of being hurt themselves. You must look at their eyes...and feel their hearts!
~ Tennessee Williams
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
~ Unknown
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left.
~ Marilyn Monroe
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
~ Anita Brookner
A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
~ Unknown
I love him but he dosen't see that we can be!!!
~ Unknown
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy, fat women.
~ Unknown
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
~ Unknown
However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
~ Eric Hoffer
Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
~ Eric Hoffer
Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything. Sometimes it seems to be hiding but it is always there. The more we can see the magic in one thing, a tiny flower, a mango, someone we love, then the more we are able to see the magic in everything and in everyone. Where does the mango stop and the sky begin?
~ Joshua Kadison
Time is relative to where you are, what you do, and who you are waiting for.
~ Spanish proverb
Love with old men is as the sun upon the snow, it dazzles more than it warms them
~ Unknown
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind- the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
~ Marie Dressler
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
Sometimes we see things not as they are but as we are: Love brings understanding
~ John Dryden
There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.
~ Francoise Sagan
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
~ Unknown
Beauty doesnt decide who we love, love decides who we find beautiful.
~ Unknown
For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world.
~ Peter Altenberg