Quotes about Perception

After all, how a woman thinks is often how she lives.

We can't look to our feelings to determine truth. We must look to truth to rein in our feelings.

What we look for is what we will see, what we see determines our perspective, and our perspective determines our reality.

Which has really gotten me thinking about all the many times I assign thoughts to others that they never actually think. I hold them accountable to harsh judgments they never make. And I own a rejection from them they never gave me.

if we allow our thoughts to stink, that smell will leak out of every bit of us—our words, our actions, and especially our reactions.

when you and I roll around in thoughts that stink, it affects the atmosphere everywhere we go.

How hard something is often depends on your vantage point.

As long as I suspect that honesty's intention is to expose me and hurt me, it will always feel like a dangerous thing.

God's goodness by how my life felt at any given time.

I picture myself standing between two boxes. From one the stench is unbearably brutal, bellowing out dark wisps of death. And the other box is full of white lilies. Their angelic blooms are fully stretched and sending out perfume, sweet and pure. A box of bitterness. A box of grace.

all the many times I assign thoughts to others that they never actually think. I hold them accountable to harsh judgments they never make. And I own a rejection from them they never gave me.

We project the lines of rejection we heard from our past on others and hold them accountable for words they never said. And worst of all, we catch ourselves wondering if God secretly agrees with those who hurt us.