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Perception Quotes
"Perceptions may not be true, but its true for YOU!"
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"Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity."
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"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star."
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"There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face."
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"My ears hear colors and my eyes see sounds."
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"Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control."
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"A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens."
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"Observe the eyes, for they are the windows to her soul."
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"The source of all light is in the eye."
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"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."
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"It seems to him there area thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world."
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"Humans see what they want to see."
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"It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it."
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"The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life."
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"I had try to tell the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it, as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know."
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"People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all."
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"If you want to see, then begin to see how you see."
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"The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him."
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"He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking."
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"We always think that God's presence is always provided to fix our problems but what if God's presence is more about fixing your perspectives? So that you will have a new way to see your problems. If you didn't make your bed before leaving home this morning, no angel is going to make your bed for you, it is still going to be as you left it till you come back."
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"In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft."
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"Beneath the handsome exterior beats a heart of darkness."
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"You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours."
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"Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval."
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"People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it."
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"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."
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"There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you want to have a bath. With other men it's nice. It helps you know you're beautiful."
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"Not until you change your lens, true beauty shall always look ugly to you!"
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"... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance."
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"I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that."
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"Much smoke has been seen, and caused great fear of fire - even when no fire ensued."
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"Even if all communication from everyone is followed, yet one cannot please everyone."
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"The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that."
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"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour."
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"If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend."
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"People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so."
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"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
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"Each one sees what he carries in his heart."
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"Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they've been duped by the same pair of eyes."
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"Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong."
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"Your attention is so sacred that if you truly look for beauty and grace, you will find it in everything."
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"Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty, we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind."
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"Knowing it and seeing it are two different things."
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
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"I see your picture and in that picture I didn't see you."
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"Saying, 'I don't agree with you, or going so far as to say, 'I think your belief structure is childish, does not amount to persecution. Insensitivity is not the same as harassment or oppression."
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"What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!"
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"I used to wonder about the fake pictures that came in frames you buy at the store-ladies with smooth brown hair and show-me smiles, grapefruit-headed babies on their sibling's knees-people who in real life probably were strangers brought together by a talent scout to be a phony family.Maybe it's not so different from real photos, after all."
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"The way you SEE your life SHAPES your life.How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspective will influence how you invest your time, spend your money, use your talents, and value your relationships."
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"The world that we live in is made up of two phases, the real world and the fantasy world."
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