Quotes about Perception
The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.
— Tony Robbins
Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
— Virginia Woolf
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
— Ashley Montagu
The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
— Anais Nin
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
— George Eliot
I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.
— George Eliot
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
— Virginia Woolf
What people think of you is none of your business.
— Deepak Chopra
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
— Pablo Picasso
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.
— Richard Paul Evans