Quotes About Perception

Perhaps you don't know all there is to know about a woman after watching her at an evening of bridge, but you should know more than when you sat down.

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes. (Nero Wolfe)

Such is the ability of man to believe in what at any time he finds it convenient to believe, they may actually have convinced themselves that they were speaking the truth.

It is undoubtedly rare for a man not to soon grow tired of a woman, but it is impossible to maintain that everything rare is undesirable.

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.

The way my life goes, I can't tell if there are pits in my cherries or cherries among my pits, philosophically speaking.

He smelled more powerfully like himself now that he was dead than he had when he was alive.

You cannot "catch" anything unless you think you can, and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You are also inviting illness if you are listening to people talking about their illness. As you listen, you are giving all your thought and focus to illness, and when you give all of your thought to something, you are asking for it.

All that we are is a result of what we have thought.

Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you." Charles de Lint (B. 1951) WRITER AND CELTIC FOLK MUSICIAN

When you change the way you think about a situation, everything connected to that situation will change.

Be careful of your mood and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.

Most people believe that negative situations come from outside of them; they believe that it's either people, circumstances, or events in the world that have caused the negative situations in their life. But nothing is inherently good or bad, as Shakespeare told us: "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves." Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) POET AND ARTIST

There are two kinds of people: Those who say, "I will believe it when I see it." And those who say, "To see it, I know I must believe

A person is what you experience, it is not what you are.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature." Saint Augustine (354–430) THEOLOGIAN AND CATHOLIC BISHOP

Life isn't happening to you – life is responding to you!

You have the sense of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch, so that you can feel everything in life. They are "feeling" senses, because they enable you to feel what you see, feel what you hear, feel what you taste, feel what you smell and touch. Your entire body is covered with a fine layer of skin, which is a feeling organ, so you can feel everything. How you feel in any one moment is more important than anything else, because how you feel right now is creating your life.

Everything that surrounds you right now in your life, including the things you're complaining about, you've attracted.

The majority of the time the mind is zoomed in and we are seeing the world through focused attention, which results in a very narrow and distorted perspective of the world.

Notice that the mind, in all its changes, has a changeless background." Hale Dwoskin

All that we are is a result of what we have thought." Buddha (563 BCE–483 BCE)