Quotes about Perception

The formula is simple: Perceived control creates calm. Lack of control gives birth to fear.

Anxiety increases as perceived control diminishes.

You cannot control the circumstances, but you can always control what you think of them.

God's thoughts are not our thoughts. They are not anything like ours. Our thoughts aren't even in the same neighborhood.

Perceived control creates calm. Lack of control gives birth to fear.

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

And because we look for the bonfire, we miss the candle. Because we listen for the shout, we miss the whisper. But it is in burnished candles that God comes, and through whispered promises he speaks: "When you doubt, look around; I am closer than you think.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Faith is the evidence of the unseen.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.