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• Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.

  Lucretius

  Gratitude, Men, Wind

  "On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius, Book II, lines 1 - 4 (tr. Rouse),

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• We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

  Bryan Singer

  Reality, World

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• Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Perception, World, Minutes

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Simplicity, Soul, And Love

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• It is a function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new form. Britten's Nocturne, for example, which unifies musically a group of poems by different hands, is a notable example of his power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

  William Plomer

  Creativity, Men, Creative

  "Electric Delights".

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• The kind of person other people perceive you to be controls their responses to you.

  Tony Robbins

  People, Kind, Response

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.486, Simon and Schuster

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• For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

  John Calvin

  Confused, Book, Two

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves

  Francois Fenelon

  Children, Forgiving, Excellent

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• The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Acting, Sage

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• I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,-the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,-Nature's good And God's.

  Robert Browning

  Beauty, Spring, Autumn

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.192, Pearson Education

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• The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom, and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best lights He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, War, Errors

  Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.330, Fordham Univ Press

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• We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Change, Influence

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.489, New York Review of Books

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• When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Nature, Ties, Faults

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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• The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.

  John Calvin

  Men, Light, Way

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• Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Use, Remember

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.502, Harvard University Press

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• When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to you that it cannot be from a human being. But many people don't perceive the Quran this way because Allah doesn't open its doors to people who do not pay attention.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Doors, People, Attention

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from May 10, 2015

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• Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

  David Hume

  Beauty, Mind, Quality

  'Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary' (ed. T. H. Green and T. H. Grose, 1875) 'Of the Standard of Taste' (1757)

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• If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mystery, Mystery Of God, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Once in awhile throughout the day...let go into full acceptance of the present moment, including how you are feeling and what you perceive to be happening... Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are. Then, when you're ready, move in the direction your heart tells you to go, mindfully and with resolution.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Letting Go, Moving, Heart

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• There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Awe And Wonder

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• Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Listening, Saint

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.129

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• It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  What Matters, Perfect, World

  "Being Precious: Gabourey Sidibe" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 7, 2010.

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• In this wonderful book Stephen Buhner shows us that the heart is not a machine but the informed, intelligent core of our emotional, spiritual, and perceptual universe. Through the heart we can perceive the living spirit that diffuses through the green world that is our natural home. Required reading for all owners of a heart.

  Matthew Wood

  Spiritual, Book, Reading

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• I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Letting Go, Motherhood, Long

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.229, Da Capo Press

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• Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Fun

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