116 quotes
“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
“Perception is the medium through which I work”
— Bridget Riley
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
— Wayne Dyer
“The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen”
— Diane Arbus
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.”
— Confucius
“To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).”
— George Berkeley
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
— John Milton
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
“We do not see things as they are we see them as we are”
— Anais Nin
“He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.”
— Thomas Fuller
“To be is to be perceived.”
“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
“The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
— David Hume
“We do not see things as they are we see them as we are. Seeing with peaceful eyes changes everything.”
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
— Nicolo Machiavelli
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”
“To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgments about them.”
— Epictetus
“Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight; but there is a beauty for the hearing too.”
— Plotinus
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Perception is the medium through which states of being unfold as visual sensation”
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
“Since we cannot change reality let us change the eyes which see reality”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.”
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
— William Shakespeare
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
— Abraham Maslow
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
— Seneca
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower.”
“It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things.”
“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.”
“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
“The world is not what I think, but what I live through.”
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.”
“Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it”
— Andy Warhol
“Things do not change; we change.”
— Thoreau
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so and conversely every lot is happy if you are content with it”
— Boethius
“Through our eyes the universe is perceiving itself through our ears the universe is listening to its harmonies”
— Alan Watts
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower”
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
— W.B. Yeats
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
“The creative eye does not see things as they are but as it is. Creativity transforms perception.”
— Italo Calvino
“Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.”
— Unknown
“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“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
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“I want to alter the way space is perceived and used”
— Gordon Matta-Clark
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is infinite.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
— Pablo Picasso
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“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
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new creative eyes.”
“If you believe it will work out you will see opportunities. If you believe it will not you will see obstacles.”
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin
“No one is happy who does not think himself so.”
— Publilius Syrus
“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
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it”
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.”
— Jesus of Nazareth
“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.”
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.”
“Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.”
— Erich Fromm
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
— Henri Matisse
“Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.”
— Plato
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.”
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
— Edgar Degas
“Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.”
— Euripides
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
“Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation and every act of creation is full of wonder”
— Oliver Sacks
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Life and dreams are leaves of the same book. Reading them in order is living; browsing through them is dreaming.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
— Vincent van Gogh
— Henry David 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
“When you are unborn you see things as they are without trying to judge them”
— Bankei
“You will see it when you believe it.”
“A perception sudden as blinking that subject and object are one will lead to a deeply mysterious wordless understanding”
— Huang Po
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”
“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
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
— Henri Bergson
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. Peace comes from reading it rightly.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
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