116 quotes
“Since we cannot change reality let us change the eyes which see reality”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“The rain has stopped, the clouds have drifted away, and the weather is clear again. If your heart is pure, then all things in your world are pure.”
— Ryokan
“We do not see things as they are we see them as we are”
— Anais Nin
“I want to alter the way space is perceived and used”
— Gordon Matta-Clark
“Things do not change; we change.”
— Thoreau
“The observer when he seems to himself to be observing a stone is really observing the effects of the stone upon himself.”
— Bertrand Russell
“We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgments about them.”
— Epictetus
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
— Edgar Degas
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.”
— Confucius
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— William Shakespeare
“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.”
— Jesus of Nazareth
“Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.”
— Unknown
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour”
— William Blake
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it”
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so and conversely every lot is happy if you are content with it”
— Boethius
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“You will see it when you believe it.”
— Wayne Dyer
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“To be is to be perceived.”
— George Berkeley
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
— Henri Bergson
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
— Seneca
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
— Jonathan Swift
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
“Perception is the medium through which I work”
— Bridget Riley
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. Peace comes from reading it rightly.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
— Pablo Picasso
“The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“We do not see things as they are we see them as we are. Seeing with peaceful eyes changes everything.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”
“When you are unborn you see things as they are without trying to judge them”
— Bankei
“The moth does not see the flame as fire; the fish does not feel the water as wet. So we do not notice the medium of our own lives.”
— Zhuangzi
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.”
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
— David Hume
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new creative eyes.”
“Perception is the medium through which states of being unfold as visual sensation”
“A perception sudden as blinking that subject and object are one will lead to a deeply mysterious wordless understanding”
— Huang Po
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The world is not what I think, but what I live through.”
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation and every act of creation is full of wonder”
— Oliver Sacks
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower.”
“Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: nobody knew the color of the darkness that enveloped them.”
— Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
“Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.”
— Plato
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
“Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight; but there is a beauty for the hearing too.”
— Plotinus
“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”
“Life and dreams are leaves of the same book. Reading them in order is living; browsing through them is dreaming.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is infinite.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”
“Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.”
— Erich Fromm
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
“To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
“It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things.”
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
— Nicolo Machiavelli
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
— John Milton
“To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).”
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
“Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it”
— Andy Warhol
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
— W.B. Yeats
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
— Abraham Maslow
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
“No one is happy who does not think himself so.”
— Publilius Syrus
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.”
“Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.”
— Euripides
“The creative eye does not see things as they are but as it is. Creativity transforms perception.”
— Italo Calvino
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
— Henri Matisse
“If you believe it will work out you will see opportunities. If you believe it will not you will see obstacles.”
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower. To hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour is true peace.”
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower”
“He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.”
— Thomas Fuller
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly because they are surrounded by things like that all day long”
— Robert Rauschenberg
“Through our eyes the universe is perceiving itself through our ears the universe is listening to its harmonies”
— Alan Watts
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.”
“The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen”
— Diane Arbus
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