1,601 Quotes About Perception

I collect things. Not words, but the landscape of them. The nightswimming, cold water pursuit of thought. The earth that some may like us mercurial as we remain.

My heart is the careful shape of a hakea seed—split by flames and floodplains and wildflowers—that bends tall to catch the colours dreamed above, but drops to a salving shade for all attending bright below.

You don't feel how far you have come until you look out into the pooling rain and stars to find peace and not a place to run from; your silence falling gentle, and your tenderness grown vast.

My heart is here reclaimed from clay and sculpted to hold the stars.

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

Because something is commonised does not mean it is not exceptional beyond commonplace.

Some days are seperate birds apart, those strung between unsteady skies, to leave so soon as each of us, as all entire light.

Your insignificance should hold you in comfort, a gossamer thread not yet woven to the wildflowers ahead.

The apparent reality is that life never quite permits us the certainty that we impose upon it.