Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. God's love for you… — Brennan Manning 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
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a clinician, I would never want to be coercive in relation to a patient, nor do I harbor the illusion that… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won’t help to call “I need a light” / You’re in Karachi now /… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
I disagree very strongly with people saying "that battle is over." If you've started a battle, I don't think it ever ends.… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
“It is indeed strange that we find it so difficult to welcome...the blissful nature of the loss of the power of selfhood—a… — Leo Bersani Copy Share Image
“You are the stuff of which consumer profiles – American Dream: Educated Middle-Class Model – are made. When you're staying at the… — Jay McInerney 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
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with… — John Green Copy Share Image
Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to know the Living Conscious Self (Soul). What you have known is living non-conscious self. Living non-conscious self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
“In truth it is inequality that is the illusion. The extreme disproportion between men, that we seem to see in life, is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist." "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Kiss a frog with your eyes wide open. If he turns into a prince you won't miss the transformation, but if he… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“If you are to suppose that natural reasons are the cause of everything, then it can only lead to the conclusion that… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
“In truth, it is the simplest act in the world. The trick works because you wish it to. You must remember the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Death is merely an illusion of the departed... Just because you cannot physically see the idea of God, doesn't mean that he… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
I mean, the thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying 'Oh, I prefer the record and she's… — Adele Copy Share Image
If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Kuranes had not lingered, but had plodded on as though summoned toward some goal. He dared not disobey the summons for fear… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and… — Jurgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that… — Doug Henning Copy Share Image
People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact,… — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
“Raag-dwesh (attachment-abhorrence), krodh-maan-maya-lobh (anger-pride-deceit-greed), they all cause misery. That is called kashaya (inner enemies that gives pain to soul).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
That is what the blueprint for this time is about. We're leaving behind the limitations and the illusion of the struggle. We're… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
