Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with the environment in the present, in the context of its past experiences and expectancies of the future. At the level of perceptual categorizations, we have reached a land of mental representations quite distant from the layers of the world just inches away from their place inside the skull. This is the reason why each of us experiences a unique way of minding the world. (pp. 166-167) . Daniel J. Siegel
Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.
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Leslye Walton
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
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John Lennon
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
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Oprah Winfrey
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
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Criss Jami
Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it.
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Irving Berlin
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