Quotes about Perception

What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art. A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious.

And she was always cold toward bats, too, and could not bear them; and yet I think a bat is as friendly a bird as there is.

Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street — and every one is signed by God's name And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass.

The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction.

THE aphorism, As a man thinketh in his heart so is he, not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he, not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so comprehensive as to reach out to every condition and circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. As