Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes and the world doesn't validate their idealized view of themselves.
God is man idealized.
From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.
I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.
There's a thing that creeps into this conversation. . . that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but ladies - the dudes are idealized too. ' And the thing is that the dudes are idealized for strength and the women are idealized for sexual availability. It's very, very different. The women's costumes are cut in such a way that I could give a cervical exam to 90% of our heroines. And I don't have a medical degree! So if I can find it, that's impressive.
For me there's several components to picture-taking and it starts with my goals as an artist. It's capturing I guess the inner life of my subject and then it is giving them their idealized version of themselves.
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.
The true God is not a form idealized; hesheit is real and therefore, by definition, imperfect; only an abstraction can be free of flaws. And since God is imperfect, there will be suffering. . . . There is no perfect God. And your suffering requires no more explanation than that unavoidable imperfection.
In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
I had so many adults around me reminding me that I was a kid. I also had a lot of adults saying things to me like, "When I was your age. . . " and sort of idealizing it. I didn't like that they idealized it.
Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.
My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.
