#delusion

Niente è facile. Non lo è mai. Se così non fosse sarebbe tutto più semplice: niente dolore, niente delusione, niente solitudine. No, nulla di tutto questo è possibile, perché niente di ciò che realmente conta può essere facile. La gioia nasce dal sacrificio, dalle ginocchia sbucciate, dai cuori infranti. Perché ciò che ci è stato inculcato da bambini non può essere vero: non ci sono favole, non ci sono eroi o grandi imprese, c'è la determinazione di persone semplici che non si arrendono mai! ↗

— Fabio Volo

#bambini #delusional-love #dolore #love

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe. ↗

— Voltaire

#brain

Humans see what they want to see. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humans #mankind #perception #self-delusion #willful-ignorance

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending that things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#life-lessons #perspective #life

I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#greatness #star #walking

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#delusions #happiness #happy #kind #man

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#accepted #based #delusion #foundation #i

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture. ↗

— John Hawkes

#always #any #being #best #cliched