“I don’t think I’m easy to talk about. I’ve got a very irregular head. And I’m not anything that you think I am anyway.”— Syd Barrett, amazon.com
“I had been mistaken in thinking that I could see clearly into my own heart.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“I think I have the right to be able to see myself differently from how others see me, to see myself however I want and not to be forced to be this person other people have decided I am.”— Enrique Vila-Matas, amazon.com
“If your brain hallucinates your perceptual reality , then the brain itself should be a hallucination produced by other brains.”— Deepak Chopra, twitter.com
“It's not strength, it's PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you'll change how you FEEL about it.”— Yvonne N. Pierre, amazon.com
“On the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of sym…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us.”— André Gide, amazon.com
“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“People's opinions, especially negative ones, largely stem from what they know they don't have and can't do. You eventually have to stop basing your self-worth on the insecurities of others.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“What you think others think is more important than what they actually think. It shows you to yourself.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“The things that don't leave your head are not the ones that show you what's 'meant to be'; they're the things that show you what you're still not okay with on your own.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com