We all started seeing things differently. Everywhere we went, we were sizing things up.
If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.
Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts.
The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.
Jim: — Do you believe in love at first sight?
Amanda: — At first sight? It's too easy. I believe in taking a deeper look.
What is important is less the reason for the experience than the experience itself.
You can't control the things that happen to you, but you can control the way you react to them. It's all perception.
The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world...
When power calls you, you come. But power itself is a fragile trick of perception.
Perception was reality, at least half the time.
— Oh, that's a bit of a reach. I'm interrupting. I feel badly. What are you drinking?
— Bad.
— Bad? Sorry?
— You feel bad.
— Bad?
— "Badly" is an adverb. To say you feel badly says that the mechanism which allows you to feel is broken.
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