#delusions

He had delusions of adequacy. ↗

— Walter Kerr

#delusions #had

I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#delusions #did #grandeur #i #kid

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. ↗

— Thomas Reed

#delusions #evils #greatest #hope #legislation

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#delusions #fantasy #illusions #religion #religion

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#back #childhood #days #delusions #happy

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions. ↗

— Ernest Hello

#discover #each #had #love #men

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite. ↗

— James Hillman

#behind #being #big #capacity #current

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#delusions #events #every #false #into

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#delusions #had #i #my own #own

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can. ↗

— Little Engine That Could

#self-empowerment #trying #self-empowerment