#perceptions

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

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

Just because these flowers sprung from weeds doesn't make them less breathtaking as those in shops and well tended gardens. Some of the most beautiful "blooms" and events out of our lives spring from experiences that almost brea(o)k us. Perhaps these "flowers" are blessings which tell us how a lot of things aren't what they seem and that when we choose to change our perceptions our perspectives can transform too. Then maybe - joy doesn't have to be as elusive as we make it out to be just like weeds growing wild a few yards off an ocean shore. ↗

— Ruby S. Bernardo

#beauty

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#confidence #create #creative #creative spirit #dictate

I could now see her the way she actually is and not in the distorted way my mind presented her to me when I was trying to find a reason to reject her and move on ↗

— Jack Weyland

#perceptions #relationships #love

Are you listening, Jasper? Sometimes you'll be walking in the city late at night, and a woman walking in front of you will spin her head around and then cross the street simply because some members of your gender rape women and molest children! ↗

— Steve Toltz

#perceptions #women #world #men

I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions. ↗

— Tina Brown

#express #felt #fun #had #have fun

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#comes #control #cool #decided #early

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#black #black and white #bright #colors #differences

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past. ↗

— Khaleda Zia

#cooperation #effective #factors #mindsets #past