Quotes about Perception

Instead of measuring my success and value by my own standards, I was measuring it by how others perceived me.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.

Perceiving myself in a blunder, I attempted to correct it. I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife. One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years. The other did not look seventeen.

Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes-- Don't get the expression of a vicious cur that appears to know the kicks it gets are its desert, and yet, hates all the world, as well as the kicker, for what it suffers.

One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls:

She may be beautiful, but she's certainly no angel.

I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears: she understood me at last, and looked a return - the sweetest of all imaginable looks.

I tell you I have nearly attained my heaven; and that of others is altogether undervalued and uncoveted by me.'' Heathcliff

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.