Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that… — Rockwell Kent Copy Share Image
“There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
One day, you might look up and see me playing the game at 50. Don't laugh. Never say never, because limits, like… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Those who had been riding the upward wave decide now is the time to get out. Those who thought the increase would… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Music may give ya an illusion of happiness,but illusions don't solve real problems!You may feel good for a second,but the next moment… — Anonymous 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
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion,… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the… — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“Our lives are more like a canvas on which we paint, than a script we need to learn – though the illusion… — Fiona Givens Copy Share Image
People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of… — Ruth Tessler Goldstein Copy Share Image
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's… — Mae West Copy Share Image
Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ...… — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
“Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of… — Judy Holliday Copy Share Image
I think people should have no illusions that Hillary [Clinton] is going to solve the climate crisis for us. We are in… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
“A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The thing [vastu, eternal element] itself is just one. But a ‘like’ and ‘dislike’ occurs due to illusion, because everyone’s viewpoint is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
![“As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering?...by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.” quote by Christmas Humphreys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/991/christmas-humphreys-37534_breathing_as-we-increasingly-become-aware-of-the-o_2340503.jpg)
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