Graffiti Steps

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

There is no elevator to success - you have to take the stairs. - Unknown

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha.' - Ernst Haas

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

The 12-step chocolate program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate! - Terry Moore

My friend Sam has one leg. I went to his house. I couldn't go up the stairs. - Steven Wright

You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. - Indira Gandhi

Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character. - Johann Kasper Lavater

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs. - Joan Welsh

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened. - Charles Spurgeon

Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted. - Tyler Winklevoss

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. - Joe Girard

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. - Confucius

It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you. - Catherine Anderson

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

At fifty, the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore. - Erica Jong

Have a bias towards action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. - Indira Gandhi