Quotes About Perception

We only know what we perceive.  Everything we perceive is ultimately just our perception of it. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Stigma is particularly cruel for depressives, because stigma affects thoughts and depression is a disease of thoughts.

Most gossip is envy in disguise.

you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

A cow is a cow even if you call it beef.

But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.

To say how I was feeling would lead to feeling more of what I was feeling.

As Hamlet said to Rosencrantz, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

So, you see? Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate term and found it. 'A load of bullshit.

There are as many versions of a book as there are readers.

Well, honesty gets you locked up in a psych ward.

the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

Feeling you have no time doesn't mean you have no time. Feeling you are ugly doesn't mean you are ugly. Feeling anxious doesn't mean you need to be anxious. Feeling you haven't achieved enough doesn't mean you haven't achieved enough. Feeling you lack things doesn't make you less complete.

She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

Yet people still don't think depression really that bad. If they did, they wouldn't say the things they say.

Many of us have every material thing we need, so the job of marketing is now to tie the economy to our emotions, to make us feel like we need more by making us want things we never needed before. We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren't photoshopped and filtered.

Or maybe, just maybe, he'd got close enough to sense the melancholy that sits at the core of her, usually hidden deep behind a superficial mask of cheerful sarcasm.

Einstein said the way to understand relativity was to imagine the difference between love and pain. "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour.

From the outside a person sees your physical form, sees that you are a unified mass of atoms and cells. Yet inside you feel like a Big Bang has happened. You feel lost, disintegrated, spread across the universe amid infinite dark space.

Philip K. Dick wrote that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Friend: Someone who will tell you the truth, often mistaken for an enemy.

It was depressing that he found it so much easier to question his sanity than my reality.

What sometimes feels like a trap is actually just a trick of the mind.

The moment we try and turn a thought into words we place it into a shared world. This shared world we call 'language', Once we take our personal unseen experiences and make them seen, we help others, and even ourselves, to understand what we are going through. What we say aloud can never quite capture what we feel inside, but that is almost the point. Words don't capture, they release.