Marisha Pessl Quotes

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

I think we're all a little bit caught up in the drama inside our own heads.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

I can't do this because I can't...I can't be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this - this just becomes...another reminder of what I am not.

All is as thinking makes it so

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.

If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.

How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself?

Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.

That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

My perspective will create my perception

Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.

We see only that which we are.

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.