Quotes about Perception

Being tall is very good for reaching high shelves and seeing in a crowd. Sadly, it has also given me the inability to dance. There's too much of me to look neat, which is most disappointing.

I love being tall. I see guys who don't handle it so well, like that Dwayne Schintzius of Florida. I don't want to sound ignorant or anything, but that guy's got a problem.

I've not liked how people treat you sometimes, but I love being tall.

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.

Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Often what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.

Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

We all have two stories---the journal of our life evnets, and the fiction we tell ourselves about them. Charles James's Diary

Humility is the power to admit that you may be wrong. Admitting to false beliefs is not weakness, it is the first step on the path to truth. And make no mistake, there is no such thing as individual truth, only individual perception. Perception is subjective, but truth isn't.