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Perception Quotes
"When perception will change then today's sadness could be tomorrow's happiness."
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"What you see is not true, but what you think about what you see is the truth."
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"Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart."
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"Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire universe within the empty picture, and absolutely nothing in the vivid painting, clarity is your friend. If you immediately see a full vivid painting and an empty picture, and see them for what they are, slavery is your friend."
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"It's both a blessing and a curse to see a woman's beauty!"
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"Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted."
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"Worldly things (laukik) are perceived through the senses (indriya-gamya). That, which is beyond the world (alaukik), is perceived [through the knowledge which is] beyond the senses (atindriya-gamya)."
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"Distance does not define your destination, it is defined by your thoughts."
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"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour."
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"Strictly speaking, it might not be a dream. It was reality, but a reality imbued with all the qualities of a dream. A different sphere of reality, where - at a special time and place - imagination had been set free."
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"Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief."
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"Tobias took the photograph. At least, that's what I saw. Most likely I still had the photograph in my hand, but I couldn't feel it there, now I perceived Tobias holding it. It's strange, the way the mind can change perception."
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"Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort."
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"There is no such thing as 'right' or 'wrong' in the world whatsoever. It is just the impurity of the vision. It is indeed illusion [mithyatva], it is indeed a poisoned vision."
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"A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us."
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"What I discovered this freak me out. That the people will check out a book with naked woman, but won't check out a book without this WHY??What are the differences?"
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"I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness."
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"Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it."
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"Time, Eddie had decided during this period, was in large part created by external events. When a lot of interesting shit was happening, time seemed to go by fast. If you got stuck with nothing but the usual boring shit, it slowed down. And when everything stopped happening, time apparently quit altogether. Just packed up and went to Coney Island. Weird but true."
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"So many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions."
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"What you expect, it will find the way to appear."
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"He noticed that he felt calmer now she was here, still in that grey dress with her dowdy hat, the air around her redolent with orchid oil. Perhaps all women in England had this effect. Perhaps they all smelled of flowers and exuded a calm and measured purpose. He couldn't remember."
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"Your thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations initiate and largely determine how you experience your reality."
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"The confusion is always created within the illusion."
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"So many people concentrate on looks, but the invisible is sacred."
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"We see the world as we are."
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"Your perspectives change your realities."
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"Why is the eye considered a reliable judge when it knows nothing of love or intelligence?"
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"His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law."
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"There are times in life that we ascribe qualities or traits to other people that are inaccurate or fail to recognize other aspects of their being because we are emotionally invested in that person fulfilling a specific role in our life. When we claim that the other person changed it is not so much that they altered their core composition, but we now must admit to ourselves that our original perception of them was imprecise."
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"It is to our own detriment that we underestimate the might of small and simple things."
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"She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were bad non-truths, even, but he nodded and tried to convince himself to be convinced, tried to believe her, because he knew that the origin of a story is always an absence, and he wanted her to live among presences."
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"Cricket Bell. I smiled into my phone. 'How did you get so wise?"
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"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
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"A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion."
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"I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic."
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"We will judge others based on their behaviors with little to no understanding or regard for their beliefs or values-standards we may not know, nor typically see. When we do this, things can be taken completely out of context because we are assessing their behavior against our expectations, which are produced from our own personal value system."
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"The most beautiful road is the road you think it is the most beautiful road!"
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"The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. In this case it's a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset's story than mine, because she has a big house and an opera box, and it's convenient to be on good terms with her."
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"The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish."
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"Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless."
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"Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white."
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"I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage."
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"When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind."
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"To see things (vastu) 'as it is' in its purest form, is called samkit (enlightened view; right belief), and to see it any other way is called mithyatva (wrong belief)."
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"To see more than a reflection requires us to filter what we see, to view the world with honest eyes."
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"I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy."
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"Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates."
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"We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in."
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"Finding beauty in the common is the sign of a gifted mind."
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