L. Frank Baum Quotes

How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

The world doesn't usually affect us directly. It's what we do with it. It's the filters that we put on it. That's the foundation of certainly most pop-psychology, and of a lot of psychotherapy, cognitive therapy. So that, I think, is the greatest truth.

You can't see the world through a mirror.

The world isn't what you think it is.

Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.

The way you see your life shapes your life.

I think perspective is a necessary, amazing thing.

The world begins with what we believe.

Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

Life is not always what we think it is.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.