Quotes about Perception
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
— Dale Carnegie
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
— Dale Carnegie
Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
— Dallas Willard
Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules.
— Pete Holmes
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
— Francis de Sales
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
— George Eliot
It's so easy to see people as less than they are, as less than people.
— Lori Wick
a person could walk around in a prison of his or her own making and never be behind bars.
— Lori Wick
What you choose to think about yourself and about your life becomes true for you.
— Louise Hay
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
— Ludwig Borne