Quotes about Perception
The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.
— Paulo Coelho
I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.
— Jonah Hill
When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.
— Tony Robbins
Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
— Virginia Woolf
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
— Ashley Montagu
The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
— Anais Nin
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
— George Eliot
I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.
— George Eliot