Best Perception Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.”

“As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you’re a kid again, poking around in your parents’ closet, only this time there’s no chance of getting in trouble, so you don’t have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.”

“Silence is a lie that screams at the light.”

“Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.”

“Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).”

“The most important thing I learnt on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever. When any Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments.”

“Perception isn’t reality—it’s a reflection. You’re not seeing the world as it is; you’re seeing what you’ve been rehearsing in your mind. What you focus on, you fuel. Change the lens, change the life.”

“You weren't born to whisper through life. You were made to dance barefoot on the tables, laugh too loud, and shatter every invisible shackle with a wink and a wild idea. This is what alive feels like when unrestrained, unedited and unapologetic about who you are.”

“The root of your problem is not your past. The root of your problem is your perception of your past.”

“There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three degrees of progress.”

“I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out...”

“How to win in life:”

“We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”

“In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.”

“The master said”

“What do you see when you look at me?”

“All we know is what we're told.”

“Smartass Disciple: But, you said that it's the truth??”

“Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists”

“We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.”

“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”

“Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.”

“There are many things which can not be expressed by words.”

“Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.”

“Why, Mr. Anderson?, Why, why?.”

“Thoughts don't become things; thoughts ARE things.”

“Perception is reality to the one in the experience.”

“There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear”

“Is it a bird? Is it a plane? We recognize our perception often plays tricks on us. We understand we can easily mistake appearances for reality, challenging the certainty of our knowledge and facing the fragility of our truth.”

“Truth is always experienced subjectively and is shaped by the context of our perceptions.”