“In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.”

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

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

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

“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...”

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

“The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”

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

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

“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”

“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.”