Quotes About Perception

the west. 'Trouble doesn't always have to be caused. It's sometimes already there.

the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

For years now I had convinced myself that the sadness of the memories weighed more and lasted longer than the moments of happiness themselves.

This is so often the way with life. You spend so much time waiting for something – a person, a feeling, a piece of information – that you can't quite absorb it when it is in front of you.

I know my own face too well to actually see it. Familiarity could make you a stranger to

Our mind might make prisons, but it also gives us keys.

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just .

It is so easy, while trapped in just the one life, to imagine that times of sadness or tragedy or failure or fear are a result of that particular existence. That it is a by-product of living a certain way, rather than simply living .

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there but no one else can see them.

I was later to realize that a neatly trimmed lawn was a powerful signifier and should have commanded in me a slight sense of fear and respect, especially in conjunction

About how human brains take complex information about the world and simplify it, so that when a human looks at a tree it translates the intricately complex mass of leaves and branches into this thing called 'tree'. To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.

I know my own face too well to actually see it. Familiarity could make you a stranger to yourself.

Ignorance changes over time. But it is always there, and it remains just as lethal.

La facultate, prietenii nostri ne-au considerat mereu un cuplu fericit. Si chiar eram. Mai putin in cealalta jumatate a timpului in care eram un cuplu nefericit.

Si ce, ai o eticheta? "Depresiv". Toata lumea ar purta o eticheta daca ar intreba pe specialistul care trebuie.

Past and future were myths. The past was just the present that had died and the future would never exist anyway, because by the time we got to it the future would have turned into the present.

Amidst the Brambles, a changeling cannot help but feel exposed, vulnerable, and even trapped, and those feelings are not without merit.

Just as person's likes, dislikes, and fears are relevant to creating an interesting character for characters to interact with, changelings can tell a lot about someone by interacting with their dreams. Thus, the Storyteller is advised to jot down a few quick ideas about the nature of a characters dreams.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

Do not cross your arms across your chest because you will appear closed off, annoyed, and non-receptive to what the other person is saying

The thing is what you are going through is not really negative. The negativity of it all is just a product of your mind. It will only become negative once you let yourself believe that it is.

The listener will be able to hear your emotions in your voice, so

Ideas ... can elicit a kind of autoimmune response - an overreaction that feels protective initially but can ultimately be counterproductive and make it harder to find truth.