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I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself. ~ Oliver
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Of course, that rationalization didn't work at all. It would have helped if I'd had some Oreo cookie ice cream to eat that the same time. I've learned that self-delusion is much easier when there's something sweet in your mouth. ~ Lee Goldberg
Deluding Oneself quotes by Lee Goldberg
Disguised in a handlebar mustache with a ten gallon hat hanging low against his brow, Loki moseyed into Odin's party, despite the fact that he wasn't invited. Being dressed like Juan Valdez in a room full of people dawning Viking braids and pointy horned hats, however, tended to call attention to oneself. Odin's wife, Frigg, noticed Loki the moment that he stepped through the door, "What the Hel are you doing here? You weren't invited. ~ Dylan Callens
Deluding Oneself quotes by Dylan Callens
If there was a common, even official form of killing oneself, suicide would be much easier and much more frequent. But since to be done with it all we must find our own way, we waste so much time meditating on trifles that we forget what is essential. ~ Emil Cioran
Deluding Oneself quotes by Emil Cioran
So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the West is that he represents an alien principle of the spirit, namely, that you don't follow your own path; you follow a given path. And that's totaly contrary to the Western Spirit! Our spirituality is of the individual quest, individual realization- authenticity in your life out of your own center. So you must take the message of the East, assimilate it to your own dimension and to your own thrust of life, and not get pulled off track. ~ Joseph Campbell
Deluding Oneself quotes by Joseph Campbell
Revenge is solely about passion. Rage. Fury. Vengeance, on the other hand, is about retribution for a crime done against oneself. ~ Pete Kahle
Deluding Oneself quotes by Pete Kahle
There is no glory in the sacrificing of oneself in the name of imperialism by order of elitist politicians. But this is what our young service members are led to believe. ~ Aaron B. Powell
Deluding Oneself quotes by Aaron B. Powell
By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it. ~ J.G. Ballard
Deluding Oneself quotes by J.G. Ballard
Actual freedom is freedom from dependency, attachment, from the craving for experience. Freedom from the very structure of thought is to be a light to oneself. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Deluding Oneself quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
One must still have chaos within oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. ~ Nietszche
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There is no outlet for demonstrating your feelings towards people whom you simply loathe. That is really the crying need of our modern civilisation. Just think how jolly it would be if a recognised day were set apart for the paying off of old scores and grudges, a day when one could lay oneself out to be gracefully vindictive to a carefully treasured list of 'people who must not be let off'. ~ Saki
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How beautiful it is when one lives completely and not with just a part of oneself. When one is full to the rim and calm because there is nothing more to get in. ~ Erich Maria Remarque
Deluding Oneself quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
To pray 'your kingdom come' at Jesus' bidding meant to align oneself with his kingdom movement. ~ N. T. Wright
Deluding Oneself quotes by N. T. Wright
Only by fully preparing oneself for people's absence can one be at ease with their presence. A recluse, I have begun to understand, is not a person for whom a connection with another person is unattainable or meaningless, but one who feels she must abstain from people because a connection is an affliction, or worse, an addiction. It has not occurred to me, until I met Trevor, to ask: 'Will I see you again?' What had precluded me from asking is this: 'Perhaps I won't see you again, and if so, goodbye for now and goodbye forever. ~ Yiyun Li
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Success only happens when a person is dedicated to a cause greater than oneself. ~ Angela Lynne Craig
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Integrity Integrity is the ability to listen to a place inside oneself that doesn't change, even though the life that carries it may change. - RABBI JONATHAN OMER-MAN Much of our journey throughout this book has been about discovering that place inside and cultivating the ability to listen to it, while having compassion for the life that carries it. It moves me to share the story of a troubled man who, exhausted from his suffering and confusion, asked a sage for help. The sage looked deeply into the troubled man and with compassion offered him a choice: "You may have either a map or a boat." After looking at the many pilgrims about him, all of whom seemed equally troubled, the confused man said, "I'll take the boat." The sage kissed him on the forehead and said, "Go then. You are the boat. Life is the sea." As we have discovered so many times, we have everything we need within us. This ability to listen inside is our oldest oar. You are the boat. ~ Mark Nepo
Deluding Oneself quotes by Mark Nepo
Love really is the answer to human problems: love of oneself, love of others, love of where one is, love of what one is doing, love of nature, love of life, love of the world, love of spirit in all its wonder and splendor. Love sets our energy free. It opens us and puts us in a flow with spirit and life on many levels. Love is the true secret behind manifestation. ~ David Spangler
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I'm always afraid of hurting someone. But if I never tell them anything, I hurt myself more. ~ Lisa M. Cronkhite
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He tended to think that when the Bible condemned something practically everyone did, whether it be tossing oneself off or eating pork, there was likely some nuance that had been lost either to history or to translation. And then he didn't think about it anymore. ~ Cat Sebastian
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To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free. ~ Theo Van Doesburg
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The only competition one truly has in this world is oneself. ~ Chris Cole
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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. ~ Albert Camus
Deluding Oneself quotes by Albert Camus
It's only now that I realize that voicing out your alternative goals isn't really a sound idea. Don't get me wrong here - I'm not saying one mustn't dream for oneself. I'm just saying that one mustn't give it voice, at least until it has been acted upon. If they don't know your dreams, then they can't shoot them down. ~ Anirudh Arun
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
Deluding Oneself quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
It is a much wiser policy to plant acre after acre of orchids and lead one's life in solitude encompassed by their sheltering stems, than to surround oneself with the hoi polloi and so court the same pointless misanthropic disgust as befell Timon of Athens. Society is forever holding forth about fairness and justice. If it really believes these to be of such importance, it might do well to kill off a few dozen petty criminals per day, and use their carcasses to fertilize and give life to countless fields of flowers. ~ Soseki Natsume
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Today, valor and courage are hard to find. People are fickle, angry, resentful and selfish. It stops them from having courage and fighting for something larger than oneself. ~ C. Gockel
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There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we lead and I don't believe that anybody in this country who has really thought about it or really almost anybody who has been brought up against it
and almost all of us have one way or another
this collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and try and become what you really are or you can retreat and try to remain what you thought you were, which is a fantasy, in which you will certainly perish. ~ James Baldwin
Deluding Oneself quotes by James Baldwin
Being different is not a problem or something that you should be ashamed of, but not being yourself is definitely a problem. Don't you ever think that you have to pretend to be someone that you are not.Be yourself. You are Perfect the way you are just know that. ~ Nabeela Zahid
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But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious! ~ Denis Diderot
Deluding Oneself quotes by Denis Diderot
One thinks one is going to the tropics and one finds oneself in the Chinese version of Welwyn Garden City. ~ Paul Theroux
Deluding Oneself quotes by Paul Theroux
Sensual pleasures are, or should be, the culmination of physical desires combined with an intellectual and emotional decision, a giving of oneself, body and spirit, in a bond of trust and respect. ~ R.A. Salvatore
Deluding Oneself quotes by R.A. Salvatore
We grasp one thing after another, and when we have grasped a thing, it is as if it possessed us. Not we possess it, but the opposite: whatever we have apparently acquired rules over us then. It is impressed upon us that a beneficent effect is to be had from acquiring a little that is firm and definite, that is to say, from growing accustomed and shaping oneself to laws and commands that prescribe a strict external discipline. Perhaps we're being stupefied, certainly we're being made small. ~ Robert Walser
Deluding Oneself quotes by Robert Walser
Is not seeing any ugly parts in myself an ugly part? Is not wanting to forgive someone's ugly parts an ugly part in oneself?
Yeah. I didn't understand a word you said, but yeah. ~ Francisco X Stork
Deluding Oneself quotes by Francisco X Stork
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. ~ Erica Jong
Deluding Oneself quotes by Erica Jong
Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom. ~ William Arthur Ward
Deluding Oneself quotes by William Arthur Ward
The bars on our cage are of our own making. ~ Jessie Burton
Deluding Oneself quotes by Jessie Burton
There are some things about oneself that it's not very nice to wake up to. ~ Nevil Shute
Deluding Oneself quotes by Nevil Shute
In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is ... in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. ~ Theodore Dalrymple
Deluding Oneself quotes by Theodore Dalrymple
Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself ... ~ Alexandre Dumas
Deluding Oneself quotes by Alexandre Dumas
Is it possible to become ecstatic amid destruction, rejuvenate oneself through cruelty? ~ Arthur Rimbaud
Deluding Oneself quotes by Arthur Rimbaud
Inasmuch as one cannot avoid bad company, one should not be deceived. One should see the insincerity behind the mask of friendliness, the destructiveness behind the mask of eternal complaints about unhappiness. The narcissism behind the charm. One should also not act if he or she were taken in by the others deceptive appearance in order to avoid being forced into a certain dishonesty oneself. One need not speak to them about what one sees, but one should not attempt to convince them that one is blind. ~ Erich Fromm
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself. ~ Denis Diderot
Deluding Oneself quotes by Denis Diderot
Alas!' replied Maître Mouche, 'she must be trained to take her part in the struggle of life. One does not come into this world simply to amuse oneself, and to do just what one pleases.'

'One comes into this world,' I responded, rather warmly, 'to enjoy what is beautiful and what is good, and to do as one pleases, when the things one wants to do are noble, intelligent, and generous. An education which does not cultivate the will, is an education that depraves the mind. It is a teacher's duty to teach the pupil how to will. ~ Anatole France
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True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything. ~ Michel De Montaigne
Deluding Oneself quotes by Michel De Montaigne
Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing. ~ Elizabeth Bowen
Deluding Oneself quotes by Elizabeth Bowen
Worries typically follow such lines, a narrative to oneself that jumps from concern to concern and more often than not includes catastrophizing, imagining some terrible tragedy. Worries are almost always expressed in the mind's ear, not its eye - that is, in words, not images - a fact that has significance for controlling worry. ~ Daniel Goleman
Deluding Oneself quotes by Daniel Goleman
Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better. ~ Harlan Ellison
Deluding Oneself quotes by Harlan Ellison
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