Discrepancies Quote by Quentin S. Crisp

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who…

— Marianne Williamson

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

— Francis Herbert Hedge

Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.

— Joyce Carol Oates

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

— Laura Esquivel

When we really start to take a look at who we think we are... we start to see that while we may have various…

— Adyashanti

Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth,…

— Jimmy Carter

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

— June Jordan

At some point in our lives, we realize the things and people we thought we couldn't live without, are just not that important anymore...…

— Rashida Rowe

We all want things that are not necessarily essential, but we always choose those actions which we think will best improve the situation from…

— Percy L. Greaves, Jr

I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there is no…

— Murray Bookchin

“If your values correspond completely with the ones prevalent in society currently, or if what you believe as your core values keep changing with…

— Dr Prem Jagyasi