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• The Universe doesn’t make mistakes. Everything is happening just as it should. It’s only our perception of difficulties that causes us the distress and the difficulty we experience. Not only that, but when we label events as ‘bad,' we fail to perceive the benefit that is waiting for us.

  Chris Prentiss

  Mistake, Waiting, Perception

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.15, BookBaby

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• Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It's the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your senses and intellect so you're able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.

  Rob Brezsny

  Giving, Understanding, Training

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.7, Frog Books

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• There is a sea of consciousness that is universal, even though we each perceive it from our own shores, an awareness and a world that we all share, that can be experienced by every living being, yet is seldom seen by any.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Sea, World, Consciousness

  Alberto Villoldo, Erik Jendresen (1990). “The four winds: a shaman's odyssey into the Amazon”, Harpercollins

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• We never really perceive what color is physically!

  Josef Albers

  Color

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• It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

  Steve Backley

  Winning, Secret, Accepting

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• Society is made up of individuals. The thoughts and actions of each individual influence the culture of that society. Instead of waiting for others to improve, we should try to improve ourselves. Once our attitude has changed, we will be able to perceive goodness throughout world. If there is a positive change in us, it will also be reflected in others. It is only what we give that we can hope to get back.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Attitude, Giving, Waiting

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• I perceive my limitations even as I work. There are times when I see nothing but restrictions, barriers. Learning takes time.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Restriction, Take Time, Barriers

  Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

  David Archuleta

  World, Emotion, Range

  David Archuleta (2010). “Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance”, p.267, Penguin

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• In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

  Peter Mullan

  Fighting, Games, Long

  Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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• A lot of people perceive women as sexy based on their outer appeal. But there's no way to mistake if a woman is confident.

  Trey Songz

  Sexy, Mistake, People

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• Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Healing, Thinking, Self

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

  Socrates

  Knowledge, Thinking, Swans

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• A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.

  Warren Berger

  Beautiful, Thinking, Ambitious

  Warren Berger (2014). “A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• How a man perceives substance dictates the amount of substance in a man. To know the depth of anyone's true substance, simply measure the weight of what consumes and excites their inner drive.

  Suzy Kassem

  Men, Depth, Substance

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• Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Wise, Subtle

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• God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.

  Richard Zimler

  Religious, Flower, Religion

  Richard Zimler (2000). “The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon”, p.22, The Overlook Press

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• Shift your frame of reference. Realise that all you see around you, ­the reality we perceive­, is a small stage upon which you act, and within it is an inner spaciousness that is infinite. Let's now explore the infinite.

  Alex Bennett

  Creativity, Reality, Innovation

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• During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Reality, Action

  Jean Piaget (2013). “The Construction Of Reality In The Child”, p.352, Routledge

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• One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

  Tom Robbins

  Perception, Looks, World

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• It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

  Sofia Kovalevskaya

  Science, Perception, Looks

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• I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.

  Sharon Olds

  Writing, Thinking, Way

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it produces is deep and low; it's possible to lose track of it, to forget or fail to perceive how it's emptied everything out of you and made the world papery and thin. Touch starved, you brush against existence like a stick against dry leaves. You become insubstantial yourself, a hungry ghost.

  Hari Kunzru

  Sex, Track, Long

  "My Revolutions". Book by Hari Kunzru, 2007.

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• If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness And Love, Made, Meetings

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• At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

  Lawrence Kohlberg

  Expectations, Groups, Maintenance

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• If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.

  Phil Lesh

  Real, Consciousness, Moments

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