Perception proverbs

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◆ We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

- Nicholas Sparks99

◆ Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

- Oprah Winfrey99

◆ Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

- C.G. Jung99

◆ Humans see what they want to see.

- Rick Riordan99

◆ The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

- W.B. Yeats99

◆ Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

- David Sedaris99

◆ Songs are as sad as the listener.

- Jonathan Safran Foer99

◆ What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

- Wayne W. Dyer99

◆ Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

- Lao Tzu99

◆ If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

- William Blake99

◆ All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

- Aldous Huxley99

◆ Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness.

- Philip K. Dick99

◆ Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

- Criss Jami99