Quotes About Idealization

Masticando il suo tabacco, il Mezzano ha sputato sulla moquette macchiata e ha detto che questo edificio umido, queste stanze semibuie, non avevano nulla a che vedere con il ritiro per scrittori che si era immaginato: gente che scrive a mano, con lo sguardo che si perde lungo prati verdi on-dulati; scrittori che mangiano pranzi al sacco, ciascuno nel suo chalet privato. Frutteti di albicocchi e nuvole di petali bianchi sollevati dal vento. Sonnellini pomeridiani all'ombra di castagni. Croquet.

A Lillian B. Rubin) Los niños le dan la impresión de ser realistas depresivos, que en general no idealizan las luchas de sus padres ni sus formas de sobrevivir, mientras que al mismo tiempo se sienten protectores en relación con ellos por lo normal de su humillación social.

There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.

Jensen Ackles has everything I want. He's in great shape. He's got a full head of hair. He's got a square jawline. He's a big star!

While we are in love with a person our knowledge of his weaknesses lies lurking in the back of our minds and our idealization of the loved one is not so much an exaggeration of his excellence as a careful "rationalization" of his defects.

I idealize you in fiction because I idealized you in real life," he continued.

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time.

Frequently avoidance of the present leads to idealization of the future... When an event does not live up to your expectations you can get out of the depression by idealizing again. Do not let this vicious circle become your life-style. Interrupt it now with some strategic present-moment fulfillment.

Jak ?íkám, romantická láska existovala i d?ív než v 12. století, ale neidealizovala se a p?íb?h Parida a Heleny je skv?lý p?íklad. Láska jim p?inesla jen prchavé št?stí, ale celkov? to byla katastrofa.

Esteban Arcadievitch sonrió; conocía perfectamente los sentimientos de Levine y no ignoraba que, para éste, todas las jóvenes del universo se dividían en dos categorías: una compuesta de todas las jóvenes existentes, llenas de todas las debilidades humanas: las señoritas comunes. La otra, formada solamente por 'ella', sin la menor imperfección y por encima de la humanidad entera.

No less romantically than Rapunzel in her tower pined for rescue did I pine for this idealized being, a kind of alternate me, a me outside of me. A shining one who would somehow at once be my familiar, my deepest intimate, and at the same time exist thrillingly apart.

Hvis man er forelsket, tænker man jo ikke på, at pigen er tung. Næ, man slæber hende på fuglevinger gennem den halve verden, hvis det behøv's

He resented the fact that she wasn't and never could be what he wished her to be, a girl who loved him passionately […] A girl like herself, with her face, her ambitions, but a girl who adored him.

"To me, you are perfect."

To my Western eyes, they were paragons of graceful competence and imagined wholeness. Sina's

romanticizing pathology

The Wizard of Oz, a master narrative of the questing journey, not only tells us that there will be disenchantment with the object of the quest, disenchantment perhaps built into any relationship that is based on idealization, but also stresses that what the seeker is really looking for is to be found in herself. Indeed, it is a cliché of the pilgrimage that it fundamentally involves the universal quest for the self.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a creature so low and so earthly that it could not even be conceived that other people and she herself could regard him as worthy of her.

She was, every time she saw him, making the picture of him in her imagination (incomparably superior, impossible in reality) fit with him as he really was