Jackie Earle Haley Quotes

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

I had an approach where everything that's happening it should be as though it's an experience for somebody. So if you're experiencing a hurricane, if you're experiencing a car crash or whatever it is, you're only experiencing as yourself, you're not experiencing it from some objective point of view.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.

What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the individual.

Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.

Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight.

I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.

It is so.When YOU think so

My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.

Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.

We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.

Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

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.

"I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain."

You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)

Everyone's entitled to their own experience.