Quotes About Idealization

La « classe mobilisée » ou perçue comme mobilisable et donc idéalisée, héroïsée même, diffère des individus qui la composent Ã¢â'¬â€œ ou la composent potentiellement. Et je détestais de plus en plus me retrouver au contact immédiat de ce qu'étaient Ã¢â'¬â€œ de ce que sont – les classes populaires.

You idealize me. You don't even know me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't like me very much.

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

I just . . . I built him up in my mind so much." "Too much reading." "In my head, he was this kind of lost romantic hero." "He can't get lost, he drives a train.

Sometimes it's like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind.

Beauty belongs to the beloved who returns the gaze, in whose eyes we see the sun. But in this . . . beauty, in the mutual gaze, also lies the beginning of terror --awe, idealization, overstimulation, violation, loss.

When we imbue our partner with godly attributes and we expect him or her to uplift us from the mundane to the sublime, we create, as Johnson puts it, an "unholy muddle of two holy loves"4 that cannot help but disappoint.

Like most girls, I fantasized about being some sort of a princess.

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

What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a lot. When you're an actress and you're really famous, it means people believe you are on top of the world - and I think that's not true.

Gatsby looked at Daisy in a way that every young girl wanted to be looked at

Every man, to be able to live and love, needs to idealize himself (and, ultimately, those he loves).

The Gods are the incarnation of what we can never be. The weariness of all hypotheses …

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

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Hindi films tend to over-romanticise situations.

While white Christianity was protecting the interests and consciences of those under its canopy, white Christians were also staunchly defending the purity and innocence of the religion itself. They accomplished this principally by projecting an idealized form of white Christianity as somehow independent of the failings of actual white Christians or institutions.

Furthermore, the image of parental strength and goodness always occurs in close conjunction with the development of a negative image of self. Patients who hate and blame themselves or perceive themselves as basically unlovable are defending and idealizing their parents.

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

I was merely an onlooker; added to which, from the time I first read Pride and Prejudice I have loved Mr Darcy so much that no actual man has measured up to him.

The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

The child's dependence on his or her parents' love also makes it impossible in later years to recognize these traumatizations, which often remain hidden behind the early idealization of the parents for the rest of the child's life.

It is easy to see in retrospect that what I longed for was not a boyfriend but a version of me without my defects --- a man in whom I could see myself as flawless, a man whose jokes always caused riotous laughter instead of sometimes falling flat, whose German was fluent instead of passable, who actually knew everything instead of pretending to and then Googling it when he got home.

I'm in love with the you I wish you were. I only stay with you because you look like him.