“I have learned well the roles and scripts we people create for ourselves, and how afraid most people are of stepping outside… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
There is something about nature out of control that touches a primal terror. We are used to believing that we're the masters… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn't immediately real; it was always something "out there." My deeply held illusions… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Love is for the faint of hearts. The emotionally depraved In need of something to make them feel safe.” — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“Eating, drinking, arising, awaking are all dharma (functions) of the body. One has not come within atmadharma (religion of the Soul) even… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“You said you were a fairy princess You said you were a shooting star You said we'd go to Bora Bora Now… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and… — Lili Taylor Copy Share Image
Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion… — David Levithan Copy Share Image