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

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“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

“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 Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

“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. Dick

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

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

“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . ”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“In this treacherous world
Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
Everything depends on the color
Of the crystal through which one sees it”
― Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”
― Dorothea Lange

“Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.”
― Gary Zukav

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

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

“Your agreement with reality defines your life.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

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

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

“The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.”
― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

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

“Surely you ain't weak.
You just can't accept yourself as a strong person.”
― Toba Beta

“Many realities hidden behind wall of perception.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“Perception is subjective.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity