We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That's being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“One day, you're going to have to realize she's dead and that she's not coming back. You need to wake up from… — Natalia Schellhaas Copy Share Image
“Delusion has a way of becoming part of life when you least expect it, or maybe when you most need it.” — Julia Kent Copy Share Image
Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment. — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation. — Kim Hee-jin Copy Share Image
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
I suffered from some delusion that I wanted to be an English country girl, a Sloane Ranger donning the old Hunter boots… — Christine McVie Copy Share Image
“Buddhism offers a way out of delusion by giving the advice to know one’s self well and to ignore both feelings and… — Read trepreneur Copy Share Image
“Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It's true I live on hope. Why shouldn't I? Every day I see her beauty while you rot in hell. You will… — Danny Scheinmann Copy Share Image
The day that we would be together would be the best day of my existence. but I'm living each day as my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“To commit the act of felo-de-se is a form of delusion. You see, my love, to leave one's life unfinished implies the… — Raymond Federman Copy Share Image
To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference.… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Patient acceptance is often considered a weak and passive response to problems that we do not have the power or courage to… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Since Congress makes the laws they are under the delusion that anything they do is legal, no matter if it is unwise,… — Jim Babka Copy Share Image
Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming… — Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro Copy Share Image
“Karma: The delusion of the pretentious; who think the Universe should act as their debt collector.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Build your life brick upon brick, Live a life of truth, And you will look back on a life of truth. Live… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living. — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by… — Thomas Reed Copy Share Image
By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. — John Terraine Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him that delusion was the most natural of human states; it was honesty that was the aberration.” — Erin Hart Copy Share Image
“People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism. — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people,… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“The possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth.” — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
