Quotes about Perception
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
What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
— Anne Lamott
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
— Anonymous