Thomas Fuller Quotes

Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.

Everyone thinks his sack heaviest.

Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven

There is a tendency to overestimate the positive things in our lives and underestimate the possibility of negative things

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

Because the life that I live - the life that we all live - is filtered through [one's own] experience. It isn't necessarily optimistic when you look at the political phenomena, the different things that are going on in the world.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.

In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

There is no order of things except in the human mind.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.

The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.