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