It’s not strength, it’s PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you’ll change how you FEEL about it.

The Christian witness never benefits when Christian organizations are known more for what they are against than what they are for.

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.

of course it is, it all is, what difference does that make?

People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change.

There is no truth beyond perception. How you look at things is the truth for you.

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next.

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can […] be closed with a shout of recognition.

You can’t tell me what we’re doing right now is not working. The perception is, well, it’s not. I don’t deal in perception. I want to deal in reality. The reality of the matter is that the percentage of guys who are taking has gone way down.

The perception is that they take too long and are too expensive.

You can see ugliness or you can see beauty in the same thing – It just indicates your state of mind ~ Ramana Pemmaraju

One noteworthy study suggests that people who suppress negative emotions tend to leak those emotions later in unexpected ways. The psychologist Judith Grob asked people to hide their emotions when she showed them disgusting images. She even had them hold pens in their mouths to prevent them from frowning. She found that this group reported...

You’re psychic.

Diplomacy “was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.We rise; one wand’ring thought pollutes the day.We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow,The path of its departure still is free.Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow;Nought may endure...

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

Sometimes a loved one might not ‘spit’ the message in the most tender or poetic fashion that suits you, but don’t allow a rugged style to blind you from a loving intent. It’s the spirit of the message one must receive beyond [the] perception of one’s senses; be mindful of hearing with the heart.

To witness miracles unfold in your experience, count your blessings and be thankful. Perceived small blessings accumulate to be the most powerful.

There are three types of actions: purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters, to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three.’ Katin looked toward the front of the car. The captain gazed through the curving plate that lapped the roof. His yellow eyes fixed Her consumptive light that pulsed fire-spots in a giant cinder....

All incoming bits of information have, simultaneously, a tentacular, optic, and sexual dimension. Its world is not doubtful, but surprising; vampyroteuthic thinking is an unbroken stream of Aristotelian shock.

There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three degrees of progress.One class lives to the utility of the symbol, as the majority of men do, regarding health and wealth as...

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it

My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.

Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.

Habitualization devours objects, clothes, furniture, one’s wife, and the fear of war. If all the complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been. Art exists to help us recover the sensation of life; it exists to make us feel things, to make the stone stony....

…human beings have a distorted view of risk. They don’t see the whole picture. Our perceptions are twisted by stories in the media, by films, by our own personalities and experiences. So, despite the unlikely odds, we still worry about being raped or murdered. We hear a sound in the night and think of burglars,...

We don’t see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship’s captain. Recognizing isn’t at all like seeing; the two often don’t even agree…

Our view of the mind not only shapes our view of ourselves; less obviously, it also shapes our view of that part of our experience we conceive of as dealing with the external world. As we learn about the structure of this aspect of experience, we find that the world presents itself to consciousness only...

There ain’t anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain’t built that way.

Mind needs more than 3D perception to be able to see edge of the universe.

Time is a structured perception of human brain on natural events. Eternity ain’t based on the human perception, but on perpetual cycle.

Semakin bersedia seseorang untuk menilai sesuatu dari sudut pandang orang lain yang berbeda, maka semakin beragamlah perspektifnya terhadap sesuatu tersebut.Semakin beragam perspektifnya terhadap sesuatu tersebut, maka semakin dekatlah persepsinya dengan kebenaran utuh dan apa adanya akan sesuatu tersebut. Inilah proses pembentukan sikap objektif dalam diri manusia.

No perspective, no perception.New perspective, new perception.

If you think you don’t have enemies, then they have won.

Not because we think that it’s still about to happen, thus makes our future life as though yet to be exist.Human mind can’t yet perceive the nature of future.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure....

Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.

I mean that the reason God seems to act in ways that make no sense to us is that our perceptions are wrong. Our expectations are subtly twisted. We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good. God...

It’s amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual’s state of mind. The mad truth—all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.

Life is not what happens to us; it is what we perceive has happened to us.

When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are—or, in this case, pretend something happened when it didn’t. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.

Early in the week, you kind of lose your sense of perception. It was nice (Wednesday) to get back on the football field and gear back into what’s important. In season, you get into such a routine. All of a sudden that changes.

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.

Would you dare to reach inside the vault of a feral heart?Glare into the keyhole, eyes bound with intrigue…is it real what we perceive? or does the absent colour leave you lost or decieved?

Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.