Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
People told me, 'You talk about Europe like it's Heaven. It's not Heaven.
Things are never as good or as bad as they seem.
There is a tendency to overestimate the positive things in our lives and underestimate the possibility of negative things
This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can't.
I'm like a little Pollyanna. I look at the world with rose-colored glasses.
I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.
When I was younger, watching movies, it felt like everything was glossy and beautiful, and I didn't really relate to it.
It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.
I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.
Love makes you blind. One day you're in love, the next day you wake up and realize that not everything is perfect.
My mom was so good at hiding the bad in life that I thought all of life was good.
I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.
Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing.
Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.
The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.
I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.
I'm not Pollyanna.
Love makes you deluded.
Being blinded by young love. I remember the feeling, when I first fell in love - you don't see the world the same way that other people see it. You don't see the same boundaries.
