Our Illusions Quotes

24 quotes by 22 authors

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. — Jack Kornfield
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators,… — Abraham Maslow
God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness,… — Marva Dawn
Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we… — Caroline Myss
Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away.… — Adyashanti
Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in… — Parker J. Palmer
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge. — Anatole France
The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover. — Ouida
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions. — Frederick Lenz
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,… — Joseph Conrad
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones. — Emile Zola
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or… — Jack Kornfield
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions… — Wystan Hugh Auden
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them? — W. Somerset Maugham
A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs. — Hanif Kureishi
What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only,… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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