Illusions Of Life Quotes:

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

- Richard Bach

source: Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.51, Delta

topic: Certain, Turns, Illusions Of Life, Messiah

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Disturbing the Universe" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 17, (p. 193), 1979.

topic: Witty, Attitude, Freedom, Mind Opening, Opening Your Mind

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

- Richard Bach

source: Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.51, Delta

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Future, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Jonathan Seagull

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

- Richard Bach

source: Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.110, Delta

topic: Relationship, Positive, Spiritual, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Life And Choices

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Someone Dying, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Indian Happy New Year, Daily Living

The master and the student on the journey to mastery, knows that the illusions are the illusions, decides why they are there, and then consciously creates what will be experienced next within the self through the illusions. When facing any life experience, there is a formula, a process, through which you may choose to move through mastery. Simply make the following statements: One, nothing in my world is real. Two, The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it. Three, I am who I say I am, and my experience is what I say it is. This is how to work with the illusions of life.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Life, Real, Moving, Illusions Of Life

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.

- Richard Bach

topic: Spiritual, Real, Self, Real Self, Messiah

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

- Richard Bach

topic: Family, Spiritual, Respect, Happy Family, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

- Chuck Jones

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Illusion, Animation, Illusions Of Life

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

topic: Dream, Men, Action, Illusions Of Life

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Innovation, Life Is, Illusion, Days Of The Year, Doomsday

When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl

- Marguerite Young

source: Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

topic: Reality, Ideas, People, Illusions Of Life

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

- Richard Bach

source: "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

topic: Believe, Ignorance, Butterfly, Caterpillars, Reluctant

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Funny, Motivational, Inspiring, Chasers, Libel

The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

- Patricia Piccinini

source: "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

topic: Ideas, People, Able, Illusions Of Life

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

- Brad Bird

source: "The 77th Annual Academy Awards". Music, www.imdb.com. 2005.

topic: Creating, Illusion, Animation, Illusions Of Life

Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.

- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

source: Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.47

topic: Departure, Doe, Illusion, Illusions Of Life

Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension of my dreams and fantasies, there's a tendency to think of them as immature. I live in a mature world. The majority of the people in this society live with delusions and illusions much more irrational and hurtful than mine. They deal with mortality, with fantasies relating to heaven and hell, and they don't really deal with their problems at all.

- Hugh Hefner

source: "Media: Rabbit is Rich". Interview with Jonathan Roberts, www.interviewmagazine.com. December, 1985.

topic: Dream, Thinking, People, Illusions Of Life