There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“Look beyond that light,' says my father. 'Look hard and you'll see people filing into the theater. You'll see ushers run up… — Elena Gorokhova Copy Share Image
It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“All the way up to the surface, Valentine struggled to make sense of what had happened. She had always thought that if… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have… — Enoch Fitch Burr Copy Share Image
In matter-ism (materialism), there can be nothing wrong with the world since there is no right way for the world to be… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. .… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large,… — Plato Copy Share Image
The least livable life is the one without coherence-nothing connects, nothing means anything. Stories make connections. They allow us to see our… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things.… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy but are in fact… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When we're born on this planet, we're taught to believe that what we see is real. But as we grow in understanding,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
“With a flick of her hand, Sabine wove an illusion. Suddenly she and Lanthe both looked like patients. "We'll create a stampede… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“Perfection is an illusion that I have mastered. It is the weak who suffer in mediocrity. But my fears are very real… — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
It's a very important process of self-recognition, self-introspection, by just daily accepting our creation, accepting what is right in front of us,… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Demons feed on death and pain madness," Valentine said. "When I kill, it is because I must. You grew up in a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Normally I can't watch playback. I can't watch anything because I know that it's so rough and there's going to be effects… — Mike Vogel Copy Share Image
The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Do what you love. Love what you do. Take less. Give more. Never quit. Never follow. Be passionate. Be bold. Be honest.… — Sonnie Trotter Copy Share Image
In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To believe the control is in your hands when it is in the hands of some other power, is indeed a wrong… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“The Charcoal Sky Sometimes you go to the wrong place, but the right way comes and finds you. It might make you… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“We cannot learn if we are stuck in our mind’s conditioned way of thinking. We must be open to discovering the Truth,… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really… — Decca Aitkenhead Copy Share Image
