Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.
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Quotes tagged ‘Perception’
It’s fun to see people blow through their own perceived limitations.
The great enemy of perception, and thus of accurate predictions, is judgment.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
I always have a problem liking things that I'm told I should like. This has been the problem with most of the Wonders I have seen so far. The fact that this one is called the 'Great' Wall of China annoys me. I'll decide if it's great or not. It might end up being the 'All Right Wall of China' to me.
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.
You look pretty but you sound like a lie.
As soon as the soul has been made to perceive that a thing can conduct it to that which it loves supremely, it must inevitably embrace it with joy.
We are one species. We are star stuff harvesting star light.
When someone tells you, ‘I love you,’ and then you feel, ‘Oh, I must be worthy after all,’ that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, ‘I hate you,’ and you think, ‘Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,’ that’s not true either. Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. T…
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.
You’re a coward with a lion’s roar. I was wrong, so wrong about you.
The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves it to the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Women have to do an impossible dance of being both ‘feminine’ enough not to be threatening, but ‘masculine’ enough to be taken seriously.
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? …I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone love me?