#perceptions

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. ↗

— Mark Twain

#because #call #dull #dumb #his

I knew her better than herself …and she was beautiful and strong and felt deep. It has always surprised me to see the way she saw herself; how little she thought about her person. It struck me as surprising because every single time I’ve seen her, I’ve thought her larger than life. And that’s why the world feared her. Because they couldn’t compare to her; she raised a new bar for others to be measured by. Because looking at the sun hurts…and she was that to me. My own piece of sky. ↗

— Eiry Nieves

#beauty #love #lovers-love-story #perceptions #beauty

When someone says "I Love You," it is imperative that you know if you are loved for "WHAT you are" or "WHO you are." When the academic qualifications, professionals, positions, possessions, good look, fat bank accounts and all that has been acquired over the years are taken away, all that is left is "Who you are" - Your Personality (character, values, perceptions.) "We are never truly loved, until we are loved for WHO and not WHAT we are ↗

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

#good-look #i-love-you #love #olaotan-fawehinmi #perceptions

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself. ↗

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#does #explicit #field #himself #inhabit

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false. ↗

— Nance O'Neil

#any #art #betrays #contempt #emotional

One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers. ↗

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

#bad #cannot #circumstances #exists #fact

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#feel #i #i can #i do #i feel

Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#hope #how #i #i hope that #legs

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#paintings #perceptions #real #undergo #viewer

And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#fairy-tales-for-adults #love #perceptions #beauty