Quotes About Perception

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so.

If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.

I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.

You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'

I have a great smile. A lot of people don't know that.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

When in doubt, follow the senses of beasts.

When blackened night falls, darkness exists if one chooses to rely on sight as thy only guide.

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.

I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.