Quotes About Illusion

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

Love can give a person strength to break through glamours and magicks.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Success has always been a great liar.

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.

If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.

Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.

Success is an intoxicant, and intoxicated people seldom have a firm grasp on reality.

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to it are mainly illusory; most of our limitations are self-imposed.