Quotes about Perception
The wise are wise only because they love. And the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love.
- Paulo Coelho
We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.
- Paulo Coelho
Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.
- Paulo Coelho
You say they create their own reality, said Veronika, but what is reality?
- Paulo Coelho
We are the ones who create the messes in our heads. It does not come from outside.
- Paulo Coelho
I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.
- Paulo Coelho
a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block -Nyah
- Paulo Coelho
a man doesn't prove he's a man by getting an erection. He's only a real man if he can pleasure a woman. And if he can pleasure a prostitute, he'll think he's the best lover on the block -Nyah
- Paulo Coelho
Everyone is indeed crazy but the craziest are those who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.
- Paulo Coelho
I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.
- Paulo Coelho
From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.
- Paulo Coelho
You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.
- Paulo Coelho