Perceived Quotes

493 quotes by 436 authors

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not. — Eckhart Tolle
Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of… — Herbert Marcuse
Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that are… — Henepola Gunaratana
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was… — D. A. Carson
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal… — Rebecca Solnit
Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can. — Sarah Kane
The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desiresâ€”to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to… — Sinclair Lewis
People are in one of two states in a relationship,â€ Gottman went on. â€œThe first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion… — Malcolm Gladwell
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In… — Brennan Manning
but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of… — Philip K. Dick
Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking… — Charlie Brooker
It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product… — George Orwell
Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact — Henri Cartier-Bresson
People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as… — Dan Brown
At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are… — Jane Austen
We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely… — Daphne du Maurier
She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've… — Kate Morton
It always comes back to our insecurities, as we say, "Oh, I'm not as good as you." So instead of accepting that perhaps I am… — Desmond Tutu

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