One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access to these ideas. Yoga and meditation, for me, is a way of, in this secular world, accessing very very beautiful principles that would perhaps make us happier, at a time when people feel disillusioned with the economy, concerned about the ecology, worried with politicians, and don't trust what they're being told on television.
We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered.
Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.
I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.
It's all right to be disillusioned, but you can't be disillusioning.
Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain't happened yet.
I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government.
Many of the people who voted for Trump were people who voted for Obama eight years ago. You remember, of course, his message was "hope and change. " People wanted change, for good reasons, and they wanted hope. Disillusioned with what took place, they turned to someone else who was offering hope and change. When they're disillusioned with that, it depends on what activists and others do.
Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life's purpose.
When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion. '
It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses.
According to the latest L. A. Times poll, 75% of Californians believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. And 60% of Californians are so disillusioned, they're thinking about moving back to Mexico.
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?
I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned.
Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.