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“The other part of me wanted to get out and stay out, but this was the part I never listened to. Because if I ever had I would have stayed in the town where I was born and worked in the hardware store and married the boss's daughter and had five kids and read them the funny paper on Sunday morning and smacked their heads when they got out of line and squabbled with the wife about how much spending money they were to get and what programs they could have on the radio or TV set. I might even get rich - small-town rich, an eight-room house, two cars in the garage, chicken every Sunday and the Reader's Digest on the living room table, the wife with a cast-iron permanent and me with a brain like a sack of Portland cement. You take it, friend. I'll take the big sordid dirty crooked city.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Maybe you’re so good at listening that you have no idea when to speak.” ~Braeden”
― S.M. Boyce, Lichgates

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
― John Lennon

“Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.”
― David Sedaris

“Humans see what they want to see.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Songs are as sad as the listener.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“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. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
― Aldous Huxley

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“It's all in the mind.”
― George Harrison

“What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.”
― Martha Graham

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

“I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90 percent how you take it.”
― Irving Berlin

“Di naman iiyak ang mundo sa isang tao lang...”
― Bob Ong

“The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole.”
― McLandburgh Wilson

“So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“When it seems like the sky is about to collapse, relax, that’s just the roof caving in.”
― Jarod Kintz, Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

“We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.”
― Colson Whitehead, Zone One

“Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find.”
― James A. Kitchens

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.”
― William Blake

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Sometimes when you're upset it's so easy to forget what's real and go for what makes you feel better. (131)”
― Charise Mericle Harper, Flashcards of My Life

“We all see only that which we are trained to see.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Masks of the Illuminati

“I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence.” I continued. “The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling