Quotes About Illusion

How quaint that life seemed now, like something you could fit inside a snow globe.

It's my personal theory that only 27 percent of perceived confidence is actual confidence, and the rest is sham. The key is: If you can't tell the difference, there is no difference.

Los deseos son engañosos; sin embargo, la esperanza es sincera. La esperanza realiza su propia magia.

This, he never doubted, was magic.

Hope was mirage, and none trusted easily to it.

Humans have gotten glimpses of things over time," he'd said. "Just enough to make the rest up. It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth." "So what's real?" she'd wanted to know. "If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.

Your credulity is as vast as this desert. One might get lost in it and never again encounter fact or reason.

It was only an illusion, but a perfect illusion.

There was a deceptive tangling of alleys that gave the impression of a map that shifted behind you, gargoyles tiptoeing away, stones like puzzle pieces rearranging themselves into new configurations while you weren't looking.

Prague entranced you, lured you in, like the mythic fey who trick travelers deep into forests until they're lost beyond hope.

The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

beautiful in a way that made beauty hideous.

La mente es buena para ocultar cosas, pero no puede borrarlas. Solo puede disimularlas, y las cosas disimuladas no están ausentes.

Do you know that opening share market price is shown different to different traders and further surprising is that to the same trader, price is seen different with different brokers account. Enough to understand that how traders are fooled and looted

There is no miserable place waiting for you, no hell realm, sitting and waiting like Alaska—waiting to turn you into ice cream. But whatever you call it—hell or the suffering realms—it is something that you enter by creating a world of neurotic fantasy and believing it to be real. It sounds simple, but that's exactly what happens.

The ego is the mind that misunderstands the nature of the I. We generally feel that the I exists somewhere vaguely within the body. To gain a correct picture of reality, it is necessary to investigate deeply and try to find out exactly where this I resides. When we make a thorough search for our self, looking throughout our entire body and nervous system, we can never find it. Sometimes we may think we have located it, but upon closer examination we can see that we have been deceived.

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Even the wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face of the same colour.

There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.

That seems like stealing, doesn't it?" Simon pulled a cup toward him. He drew the lid back. "Ooh. Mochaccino." He looked at Magnus. "Did you pay for these?" "Sure," said Magnus, while Jace and Alec snickered. "I make dollar bills magically appear in their cash register." "Really?" "No." Magnus popped the lid off his own coffee. "But you can pretend I did if it makes you feel better. So, first order of business is what?

Magnus raised his hands above his head and clapped once. The room flooded with light. "You see? You think that would be possible without magic? "Actually," replied Simon, "It is. If you watched infomercials you'd know that.

He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it...because it wore the face of a friend.