What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call ‘reality’ may be the greatest myth of all.

It’s market perception that moves the market, and the perception is negative,

It’s been said that people see what they want to see. For that exact reason, look for the good in people, rather than the bad.

It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as...

It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.

If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality?

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull

You can’t change the past, only your perception of it; but you can control the future.

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

Your perception determines your reality.

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

I’ve got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.

One Fails Before One Perception…!

Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,’ he explains patiently. ‘The sounds we hear are just waves in the air; colors are electromagnetic radiation; your sense of taste comes from...

Even the water, grey and listless as it tossed against the harbour wall, seemed fixed in time; as if peering hard enough into its depths would reveal the tips of Peter’s fingers, himself still swaying...

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation...

Adapting our own perception, following rather than leading and building bridges are all keys to helping the child with autism learn.

Sometimes you don’t need to change what you’re looking at only get a better view.

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that’s as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

My face doesn’t match my personality. Maybe it would if instead of a mouth I had an asshole in its place.

Even when I was a very young man,I was looking for the purpose of life; I was looking for happiness all over the world; In fame and in glamour, in wealth and in splendor, not...

all appears to change when we change

I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse...

As information processing machines, our ability to process data about the external world begins at the level of sensory perception. Although most of us are rarely aware of it, our sensory receptors are designed to...

You used,” he said, and then took a sharp breath, “to call me Augustus.

He looked at me with the tired, ignorant, slightly stupid expression that is so common in people who aren’t used to seeing the broader picture in small things.

The first stage of ignorance is illusion, due to lack of exposure to reality. The second stage of ignorance is delusion, or the refusal to acknowledge reality. The third stage of ignorance is the rejection...

He considered it a shame when people couldn’t grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

Perception is everything. Mariah was totally seen as the underdog (because) those albums were considered failures.

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

A snake bites your ankle.Recoiling, you scream.Fearing poison, your mind slips into a dream……where a man bites your ankle.Expecting no guile, ‘Again,’ softly falls from your lips with a smile.Yet, the man and the snake...

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception…you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted...

I think there is a growing perception that the next move by the Fed could actually be to ease — in other words, lower rates. Now, we’re not going to see that certainly before the...

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

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...

There are people who desperately want to change the world. I wonder if it could be measured, because the world is already in the state of continuously change since the beginning of time. Or they...

I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.

Sometimes what you see is not real, and the reality is not what you see. Somewhere between both these reasoning resides a fact: where there is a lack of trust and confidence, perception will always...

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see...

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our...

Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To read the words of these great men is to read the highest expression...

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn’t owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed...

Fear is a perception to dare but not to scare.

Happiness is a perception of what you have, not what you should have.