Before you accomplish your dreams physically, your inner make up, mindset, emotions and perception have fought the battle mentally and that already determined how the battle will be fought physically.

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded.But if you knew this secret from the start,then you’d have quit this Game before you played it.

If you perceive a world where there are separate images and you still feel a charge about anything, that is the indicator that you want to ask for Help. Lord, help me today. I am...

Some trees grow straight, while others grow gnarled and twisted. Yet none are imperfect. Perfection is merely a perception.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

We can become fearless as we let go off our grasp on the fear of failure, because failure too is a perception rather than a reality.

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....

There is something about the act of studying an unclothed body, as an artist does, that allows a person to appreciate it as pure form, regardless of the kinds of traits traditionally regarded as imperfections....

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I’d seen her as a child sees a good mother–pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

Don’t ever perceive other people’s success as your own failure.

That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.

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...

Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally – oh, very rarely! – the cogs fit; the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses...

Happiness is the result of our perception. If we focus on lack we will never find contentment. If we focus on what we have in joyful appreciation, suddenly the world becomes our footstool.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes….Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is...

[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a good plan.

What else could it be? That is the truth that you spoke to me, the truth that brings power.

Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to ‘show’ it to me because as soon...

We open our eyes and we think we’re seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we...

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren’t so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the...

Keep your wife happy by living in a slightly nicer house than your neighbor. And you can do this by living in a poorer neighborhood than you ever imagined.

Happiness is an awareness, perception, feeling, and imagination. Happiness is a state of mind not a condition.

Discernment is a light of protection and direction in a world that grows increasingly dark.

Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Music, this complex and mysterious act, precise as algebra and vague as a dream, this art made out of mathematics and air, is simply the result of the strange properties of a little membrane. If...

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was – wasn’t everything in her head real too? What if there was no...

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don’t you?

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go.

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.

We are all so happy. If we only could realize it.

Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment...

The perception in the marketplace has a tremendous impact.

An individual’s perception is their reality colored in the shades they desire–not necessarily the color that it is.

You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the...

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

To analyze or assess a person’s failings or deficiencies,’ he declared to himself, ‘is useless, not because such blemishes are immovable, but because they affect the mass of beholders in diverse ways. Different minds perceive...

One who has lived through the days of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and the Japanese war lords feels something that a younger generation does not concerning the aberrations that are possible in this world.

My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.

A hundred francs! Oh, dear me! It is worth millions of francs, my child. But my — dealer — here tells me that in fact a picture is worth only what someone will give for...

The intellect seeks to throw its own interpretation of the real over reality, and in so doing carves the world up into artificial little cubes.

Show a man too many camels’ bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.

Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception.