Perception Quotes

I have patient to wait for what I desire.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The way you perceive your Self is what enables, or disables, you.

~ The Truth

Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

~ Wayne Dyer

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

There is light in the shadow just as there is shadow in the light and although many disclaim these shadows as everything unpleasant in the world, it cannot be so, it is not so. Just as there is beauty in the light, the shadow hold it's own muted allure and of both shades, there are songs and dances and revelry and sorrow. They are one and the same, different sides of the same coin, a mirror image looking at itself. The only thing that sets them apart, and will continue to divide these two spectrums, is our perception of the 'fact' that one is light and one is shadow.

~ Kensi Brianne Smith

Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.

~ Ashim Shanker

At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?

~ Ashim Shanker

Dad had once said, Trust your mind, Rob. If it smells like shit but has writing across it that says Happy Birthday and a candle stuck down in it, what is it?Is there icing on it? he'd said.Dad had done that thing of squinting his eyes when an answer was not quite there yet.

~ George Saunders

A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better.

~ Gregory Maguire

Sometimes what you see is not real, and the reality is not what you see. Somewhere between both these reasoning resides a fact: where there is a lack of trust and confidence, perception will always differ with reality.

~ Ashish Patel

TRUST ADJUSTAn act that changes perception can elevate or lower integrity

~ Kamil Ali

When I deny the seriousness of my abuse I agree with my abuser and those who wouldn't acknowledge it. When I am in denial, I have the tendency to minimize my abuse, believe the lies others have said, as well as deny it ever happened. It is important for me to remember as much detail as I can so I can trust my own perceptions of what really happened and not depend on the validations from others.

~ Patty Hite

The glass is neither half empty, nor half full. The glass is just a glass and it's content can perpetually change with your perception.

~ Jennifer Sodini

Forgiveness is…an archaic perception of personal debt and guilt designed by the ego to trap us unendingly within itself.

~ Peter Santos

The Holy Spirit Asks that you accept the idea of one mind wholeheartedly, for this is the Correction to the error called ego. The ego was the belief in private minds with private thoughts, but if mind is one the ego has no foundation on which to stand. Forgiveness reflects the oneness that shines beyond perception. Forgiveness unifies and shows the world anew. You are not going insane, you are going inward to sanity of mind. And unified perception is the gateway to the remembrance of God and Christ.

~ David Hoffmeister

Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul, dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When a small group of people come together to relive the Salem witch hunts, God cries. For if anything is sorrowful to God, it is evil done in his name. When you find out you were not given the truth, how will you live with yourself?

~ Shannon L. Alder

When perception will change then today's sadness could be tomorrow’s happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

How, when and what you perceive - defines your life!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

~ Stieg Larsson

Without imagination we should be lost; for only with its help can we interpret our experience, turn it into experience of an outer world, and thus make use of it in understanding what and where we are, and what we need to do.

~ Mary Warnock

Everything in your mental life proceeds in proper neurological order. If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, you would be a true prophet and visualize the future in the present as in a mirror.

~ Abhijit Naskar

My perception of your beauty was far more erotic than your real beauty! Am I to be blamed for taking too much effort on my part in beautifying you or did you fail in seducing me?

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

People are different in reality from the way you've seen them while making scenarios in your mind. For one thing, they're less consistent. They surprise you all the time.

~ Ruth Rendell

The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias.

~ F.t. Mckinstry

Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire universe within the empty picture, and absolutely nothing in the vivid painting, clarity is your friend. If you immediately see a full vivid painting and an empty picture, and see them for what they are, slavery is your friend.

~ Lionel Suggs

The potential of controlling and living a successful life according to your terms depends on how you think. Your perception is your world. You can create the life you want and in fact, you can even shape the way you want it.

~ Dee Dee Artner

The darkest night in someone's life may be the brightest day in another person's life. Life rests on perceptions and conceptions or missed perceptions and misconceptions. You can choose to make good things out of every challenging circumstance. In contrast, you can also choose to see nothing in a creative opportunity.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You must always reserve a question for people who think you are proud when you talk about your dreams! The question is how would they get to know that you are proud if you had not talked about your dreams? How then should people get to know what you do if you take delight in hiding yourself?

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Attitude. That is your tendency to evaluate things based on your perception. If you think you can't, that is a negative attitude parcel and opening it will reveal what you believe

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is almost impossible to be consistent with your goal, if your subconscious mind is constantly fed with negative perceptions of its road.

~ Hafiz

There are some people who through hurts do not feel they are good enough and this is a destroyer of their self-images. As a true believer of your dream, you need to see yourself as God sees you. God sees you as his own handiwork and that is pretty great to carry you through!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A dream is the frame or portrait or a construction or focus of one's vision by means of perception, based on what he or she knows and settles within via strategic thinking.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.

~ Sue Grafton

The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.

~ Ashim Shanker

The apparent is never the real.

~ Charles O. Slavens

It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around...

~ Frederick Buechner