If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. —Jim Morrison More about this quote Tags: feeling poetry perception limits Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: reality gratitude memory past perception bounty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How many people long for that “past, simpler, and better world,” I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them? —R.A. Salvatore More about this quote Tags: past perception self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In memory everything seems to happen to music. —Tennessee Williams More about this quote Tags: memory perception music Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. —Anaïs Nin More about this quote Tags: writing perception art familiar seeing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. —Bernard Baruch More about this quote Tags: humor perception age old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? —Philip G. Hamerton More about this quote Tags: wisdom perception quotes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. —William James More about this quote Tags: reality perception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. —Douglas Adams More about this quote Tags: time perception illusion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. —Richard Feynman More about this quote Tags: perception science foolishness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: wonder mind religion perception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is well to remember that by the time-scale of the universe, the shapes of all things and systems are as fugitive and evanescent as those clouds driven before a gale, which coalesce and dissolve as they go. —David Pye More about this quote Tags: reality perception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole. —Lauren Oliver in Before I Fall More about this quote Tags: perception error Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Change your thoughts and you change your world. —Norman Vincent Peale More about this quote Tags: perception change thoughts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It has always been part of basic human experience to live in a culture of wilderness. There has been no wilderness without some kind of human presence for several hundred thousand years. Nature is not a place to visit, it is home. —Gary Snyder More about this quote Tags: humanity perception experience nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email