Quotes About Idealization

Tall, dark, and handsome, well built, easily topping six feet. Gorgeous. A bone-melting smile. Pearly whites. But of course he had perfect teeth. Oh crap. She was a sucker for tall, dark, and dashing.

True, I'd never met him. And true, he was a fictional character. But he also was what people needed him to be: a dashing hero, and articulate peacemaker, a cunning excape artist.

We erect a statue in our own image inside ourselves - idealised, you know, but still recognisable - and then spend our lives engaged in the effort to make ourselves into its likeness.

The more emotionally deprived a person has been, the stronger his fantasy bond. And paradoxical as it sounds, the more a person has been abandoned, the more he tends to cling to and idealize his family and his parents. Idealizing parents also extends to the way they raised you.

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

Todos éramos expertos en idealizar lugares, y tras el 11 de septiembre sólo nos quedaba un sitio que idealizar, un sitio que nunca podría desilusionarnos: el pasado.

Silverman also contends that a baby's demands on the mother can be "very flattering to the mother's narcissism, since it attributes to her the capacity to satisfy her infant's lack, and so—by extension—her own. Since most women in our culture are egoically wounded, the temptation to bathe in the sun of this idealization often proves irresistible.

And continued to regard all their absurdities in the most rosy light through the admiring eyes of love.

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

Unutu?, görevini yerine getirmiyor de?ildi, ama ayn? zamanda özlenen görüntünün ülküselle?tirilmesine ve dolay?s?yla, ilk andaki ac?n?n onu peki?tiren benzer ac?larla bütünle?tirilmesine katk?da bulunuyordu.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

When we are young we love our idealization of people, I suppose, and only as we grow older do we love them as they really are.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

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

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

Comprendió cómo es posible idealizar a las personas por conveniencia propia mientras se pisotean sus debilidades humanas como si fueran tierra.

The possible is the openness of the perceived world and not a system of logical Being in which we would be set up through idealization.

I guess I had all kinds of ideas about him, but they weren't really him, they were just what I made him in my head. The reality was not as attractive as the ideal.

Could she have known that it was her own image that, Waldo wrote, "rose before me at times into heroical & godlike regions, and I could remember no superior women"? Indeed, to Waldo, who had once unkindly disrupted her Conversations on classical myth, Margaret was best compared to "Ceres, Minerva, Proserpine, and the august ideal forms of the Foreworld." He had not told her this, but perhaps somehow she knew.

From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.

I figured that kind of delightful explosion was reserved for fictional heroines with perfect complexions and no cellulite on their thighs.