Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“feelings are “false” or perhaps “illusory” if they lead the organism astray—” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“They seemed nothing more now than the purely subjective, impotent, illusory creatures of my temperament” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.” — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
I urge people to be a scientist about what they want and ask themselves why they want it so badly. Perhaps they… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
“This world is full of forms that are illusory, and the values are all wrong, the proportions are out of focus. The… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
When you awaken, you know that everything that occurs at the level of mind is illusory in nature and so you no… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The people who seem to have a lock on power get swept out in a couple of years. So it's naïve to… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
As you all become more intimate with Me, with opportunities to come closer to Me, all that is good and bad within… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It's good to remember often, every day, that you are not a physical creature in a physical universe; but a non-physical consciousness… — Bentinho Copy Share Image
The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war:… — George Packer Copy Share Image
In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image
It is no wrong or injustice that one has many bags of the finest myrrh and garments embroidered with gold, while another… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose… — Val Plumwood Copy Share Image
There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under… — Antoine D'Agata Copy Share Image
The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion,… — Ludwig von Mises 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
It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory. — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
