Perception

Deep within you is a wise friend who will show you the path.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and though recklessness was freedom. – Toni Morrison

There are people who make things happen, there are people who
watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes
things happen. – Jim Lovell

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do. – Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. – Gustave Flaubert

I slept, and dreamed that life was joy; I awoke and saw: life is duty; I worked and behold: duty is joy! – Rabindranath Tagore

I’m to busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.

Truth? That’s a matter of perspective. – Marije Berkelaar

Difficult to see is the law of causation, the chain of causes and effects. – Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see. Observe things as they are and don’t pay attention to other people.           – Huang Po

You don’t look in the dark with your eyes.

You look with your eyes, you see with your soul. – Melle Oldenboerrigter

How can we see the richness of life if we run through it breathlessly? – D. Gunston

You cannot cross the sea just by staring at the water. – Rabindranath Tagore

If you want to know what you want, you have to look at what you do.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. – Mark Twain

Don’t look back. You’re not going that way. – Mary Engelbreit

You’ll see it when you believe it. – Wayne Dyer

Because we can’t look into the sun, we like the moon more.

Stupid is Knowing the truth, seeing the truth, but still believing the lies. – Norman Freeman

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. – Carl Gustav Jung

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. – Richard Bach

I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. – Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller

Love is when you look into someone’s eyes and see their heart.

People say a lot. So I watch what they do.

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes & dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself: ‘It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than to be selfish and worry about my liver.’ – Jack Handey

Death is no more than passing from one room to another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. – Helen Keller

Mental slavery is the worst form of slavery. It gives you the illusion of freedom, makes you trust, love and defend your oppressor while making an enemy of those who are trying to free you and open your eyes.

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. – Japanese Proverb

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it. – William Butler Yeats

By confronting fear and looking it in the face, you are taking away its power.

The highest art of warfare is not to fight at all, but to subvert anything of value in the country of your enemy until such time that the perception of reality of your enemy is screwed up to such an extent that he does not perceive you as an enemy….You can take your enemy without a single shot being fired. – Yurl Bezmenov

To see clearly again, you often only have to change your perspective. – A. de Saint-Exupéry

People don’t want to be talked out of their feeling. People want to be heard, seen , felt, and understood. – Rachel Samson

You are more than you thoughts, your body, or your feelings. You are a swirling vortex of limitless potential who is here to shake things up and create something that the universe has never seen. – Richard Bartlett

Some people could be given an entire field of roses and only see the thorns in it.
Others could be given a single weed and only see the wildflower in it.
Perception is a key component to gratitude. And gratitude a key component to joy. – Amy Weatherly

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering. – Dalai Lama

A large body of research results demonstrates that an observer can be persuaded to conform to the majority opinion, even when the majority is completely wrong. – Robert Buckhout

When you cannot see the bars for what they are, you won’t recognise the cage for what it is either, much less the door, not to mention the key. We can only be kept in the cages we refuse to see and the strongest lock on every cage is always denial.

There’s none so deaf as those who will not hear.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. – Jim Lovell

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. – Helen Keller

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and though recklessness was freedom. – Toni Morrison

Discernment is not the ability to tell right from wrong. It is the ability to distinguish the difference between good and almost good … – Charles Spurgeon

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Let the eye of vigilance never be closed. – Leonard H. Courtney