1,601 Quotes About Perception

I was not impenetrable, merely inexhaustible. Failure became the clarity of water to wash away spent days, and pain the means to move my heart closer to magnificence.

We are changed forever. But the moments remain, in moth dust fallen from us, in firefly-light and flickering stars, in the monuments of our breathing, in smallnesses that become our mended bones.

All of my fears will rarefy to fuel. All of my fears will lead me forward. All of my fears will ignite old beauty, and arcane refuge, the wonder of all things found in the waiting light.

You are the song I keep in starless light, a beauty known beyond uncommon sight, within your mantle of colours and riotous grace, I seek the fire-storm, our winters place.

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.

My actions have alone been for hope of verdant kindness, to draw free thorns from others where once felt a violent tempest through me.

Our reality is a creation of our perception. Our perception is determined by our mindset.

Hold true to the day when your ruinous colours become the reason you hold light.

When Klara plucks a coin from inside someone’s ear or turns a ball into a lemon, she hopes not to deceive but to impart a different kind of knowledge, an expanded sense of possibility. The point is not to negate reality but to peel back its scrim, revealing reality’s peculiarities and contradictions. The very best magic tricks, the kind Klara wants to perform, do not subtract from reality. They add.