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Quotes about Perception

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
— Erica Jong
Faith is the evidence of the unseen.
— Maya Angelou
What other people think is more important than what we feel.
— Paulo Coelho
When we have great treasures before us, we can never see them.
— Paulo Coelho
He also knows the importance of intuition.
— Paulo Coelho
I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
— Oscar Wilde
We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.
— Robert Frost
It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences.
— Tony Robbins
That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
— Victor Hugo
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.
— Virginia Woolf
As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.
— John Maxwell