Idealization Defense Quotes & Sayings

I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey. — Markus Zusak

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity. — Jorge Luis Borges

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul. — Brennan Manning

He was right across the desk, and I wanted him to take me like his little vanilla whore. — C.D. Reiss

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. — Ram Dass

Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general. — Lorene Scafaria

The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks. — William Jennings Bryan

Creative collaboration is awesome. — Alicia Silverstone

Positive society, positive world. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Could love be strong enough to outlast death not once but three times? — Lisa See

I would have to go into the tunnel whether I wanted to or not - the tunnel was the road of going on, and there was more of the road on the other side of it - but the entrance was where [my teacher] had to stop. Inside the tunnel was what I was meant to learn — Margaret Atwood

Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life? — Christopher Babson