Quotes about Perception
What they say about you does not define who you are. Their opinion of you does not determine your self-worth.
— Joel Osteen
Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don't you remember? MARK 8:18 HOW'S YOUR SPIRITUAL VISION this morning? Are you focusing on your problems, on what you can't do, on what you can't have? The barrier is in your mind. It's not God's lack of resources or your lack of talent that holds you back. It's simply because you are focused on the wrong things.
— Joel Osteen
Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
— St. Augustine
In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.
— Natalie Portman
He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.
— Paulo Coelho
Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
— Oscar Wilde
It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.
— CS Lewis
Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.
— Frederick Buechner
Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.
— Anne Lamott
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!
— John Keats
The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.
— Nelson Mandela