“Reality never comes as a problem. It is only the ideas about reality that comes as a problem.”

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.”

“All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.”

“Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light o...”

“When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”

“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”

“It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus”

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

“Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.”

“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.”

“Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.”

“She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she'll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom.”