c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself” (p. 5)
— Cathy Caruth, Trauma: Explorations in Memory
Hopefully one day Wars will only be fought in movies. And may the best producer win!
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
We can become fearless as we let go off our grasp on the fear of failure, because failure too is a perception rather than a reality.
— Gyalwa Dokhampa, The Restful Mind
The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds
— Idries Shah
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God.
— Chuck Palahniuk
No one is an outside observer of nature,We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our ecology. And that ecology is necessarily relative, historical and empirical.
— Beau Lotto
...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.
— Ruth Dugdall, The Sacrificial Man
How much of what is there do you allow yourself to see?
— Ashly Lorenzana
For years I'd been trying to forget..., locking it up and burying it deep in my memory. The journey... had shattered that, bringing it all back - but now that I'd faced it, I found to my surprise that the fear had been worse than the reality.
— Benedict Jacka, Fated
When flying dreams hit the soil of reality, all that remains are the imprints of experience.
— Soar, Yours, poetically: Special Deluxe Edition of Selected Poems and Quotes
The so-called spiritual inquiry must necessarily address questions of authority and power since both individuals and the organizations that represent them generally seek legitimacy from hegemonic interpretations of truth and reality. The only way to maintain the integrity of spiritual inquiry is to encourage radical questioning of all precepts/percepts and their interpretations.
— Daniel Waterman
Life isn't about just having dreams, it's all about transforming them into reality.
— M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier
Collaboration is about “team work.” It’s not a cliché, it’s a practical reality.
— J.A. Perez
Most of us are used to thinking that “imaginary” is the opposite of “real.” That is, when we imagine things, we are just making them up. In the spiritual life, though, there are some realities that cannot manifest unless we begin by imagining them.
— Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
He continued with a laugh, "And for highly motivated people, there are few more frustrating situations than realizing that the goals you've set will require a shift in the basic laws of time and space.
— Eric C. Sinoway, Howard's Gift: Uncommon Wisdom to Inspire Your Life's Work
Reality is not made of dreams, until you make them real.
— Soar, Yours, poetically: Special Deluxe Edition of Selected Poems and Quotes
Be aware for there is a snare ready for a serpent
— Sania Athar
The term entheogen proposes a radical inversion of customary attitudes towards religion as faith or as something concerned with an ultimate reality or truth that is not a construct: ‘en-theo-gen’ is less ‘enthused by an experience of God within’ than something akin to 'empowering our ability to imagine or create the divine.
— Daniel Waterman, Entheogens, Society and Law: The Politics of Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility
If you don't know the person personally, then don't take it personally.
— Kelsie
Anyone can do whatever they want in life, this is our world to play in.
— Chad Hofmann
Reality, my strange and precious one. Reality is fabric. Fabric isreality. And your reality here is far easier to live with than where Iwas on the other side. So that’s why I don’t want to go back, andwhy you wouldn’t like it.
— Esme Ellis, This Strange and Precious Thing
God loves 'stuff
— ' after all He made it
The real trouble with reality is that there is no background music.
— Anonymous
Is my imagination as important as reality? Sometimes I think YES... It's imagination that makes reality tolerable... Sometimes, I just want to close my eyes and fall in to the endless imagination...
— Rati Tsiteladze
You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.
— Shannon L. Alder
Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Is my imagination as important as reality? Sometimes I think YES... It's imagination what makes reality tolerable... Sometimes, I just want to close my eyes and fall in to the endless imagination...
— Rati Tsiteladze
We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause - for what they call success. Those are words that do not correspond to reality. They are conventions, things that are invented, but we don't realize that they don't correspond to reality. What is success? It is what one group decided is a good thing. Another group will decide the same thing is bad.
— Anthony de Mello, Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.
— Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic
— Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
Attitude shapes reality.
— Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
There is no doubt that Einstein's pipe was his closest associate, while others--including wife and family--were never permitted the illusion that they would ever be at the center of his life.
— Palle Yourgrau, A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel And Einstein
Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society.
— Testy McTesterson
Things spoken in love always become reality.
— Amy Neftzger
In his mother’s honor, vowing not to commit the “fashionable stupidity” of ignoring things he didn’t understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams might be exactly what they seemed: real.
— Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening
Since we have free will, we create our own reality and virtually everything is negotiable.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
A movie that gets closer to the life's reality of the society finds always more words of mouth publicity in entirety.
— Testy McTesterson
They were both from the real world, their own distinct ones, but I was somewhere in limbo. Set apart, I didn't know how to let either of them in.
— Amina Gautier, At-Risk
I know the difference between the confection of live as sung in a minstrel's tale and the sustaining bread of love in reality, he defended himself. Both are to be savoured in their own way.
— Elizabeth Chadwick, The Marsh King's Daughter
If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
Luck is not some esoteric, godlike phenomenon. Luck is countable but undefinable. Luck easily can be explained as number of factors acting in a favour of a person. These factors' behaviour could be statistically proved , and the probability of such result is possible. It is not related to something explainable event. Actually, the miracle would be if these events (luck) are not in presence in our life. The matter as then would be mathematics proved wrong. So, make your luck!"﻿
— Csaba Gabor - B
Reality (i.e., the truth) is that there is a God in heaven. Reality is that He made us and we are accountable to Him. Reality is that this God has spoken and what He says matters--eternally. Reality is that without His salvation, we are doomed to eternal torment. Reality is that God's Son, Jesus Christ, has died for the sins of the world, that He has risen again, and that whoever believes on Him is given eternal life.
— Jim Berg, Changed Into His Image
When you are committed to live your life being true to yourself, you need to free your feelings in order to experience all that life has to offer. If you try to control your feelings, there is no doubt that the life you are living is merely a lie.
— Yara Greathouse, Unavoidable
My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
If the truth is inside,And the form is outside,What is the truth of sleep?
— Kenneth Patchen, Collected Poems
It made a romantic tale. The young rouge, cheating death, returning to his grieving lover. But in reality? Ashyn had always known life did not resemble one of her book stories or Moria's bard tales, and yet there was a part of her that hoped it did. The more she saw, the more she realized she was wrong. People made up stories because that is what they wanted from their world. A place where goodness, kindness, and honor were rewarded. They were not rewarded. The people of Edgewood could attest to that. - Sea Of Shadows
— Kelly Armstrong
There are a lot of things I want," I say quietly and deliberately. "But I think I will keep what I have.
— Rosamund Hodge, Gilded Ashes
In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That is what she thought, though what is most untrustworthy about our natures and self-worth is how we differe in our own realities from the way we are seen by others.
— Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
Excuses will always be made, and blame will always fall on the other. Though the truth is before you, your own love will forever blind you from it. I will not lose you just to prove a point, nor to shatter your heart with the reality before you. Instead I will smile. I will live. I will accept that it just is. I do not do this for them, but I will do it for you. I will do it because I love you." - from an untitled script
— Faye Hall
Don't go in for the "yellowish" if what you need is "yellow". The attitude called precision is the quality that remarks the accuracy of your demand. Never settle for the less; Go for the exact thing!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake
— Callie Hunter, Shattered
Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.
— Aldous Huxley, Island
It had happened. I had brought the dream out into reality and it had dissolved. It was just a dream and had found no purchase in the real world where it was dependent on other people for its realization. I wished that I could have sucked my words back inside where they had lived a colorful life of promise, had been nurtured by hope, and had never been tested
— James Franco, Actors Anonymous
For all our mutual experienceOur separate conclusions are the sameNow we are forced to recognize our inhumanityOur reason coexists with our insanityBut we choose between reality and madnessIt's either sadness or euphoria
— Billy Joel, Billy Joel: Turnstiles
Reality can be very boring.
— Amy Neftzger, The Orchard of Hope
This was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for me again – unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality…
— James     Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
Not only do skeptics such as Lanning choose to ignore eyewitness/victim accounts of ritual criminal activity, they apparently also choose to overlook the significant number of cases of ritual abuse in which perpetrators have confessed to their crimes. In the Bottoms et al. (1991; 1993) study of 2,292 cases of ritual abuse, perpetrators in 30% of the child cases confessed to abusing one or more children, and perpetrators in 15% of adult cases confessed to perpetrating as well. In the case studied by Snow and Sorenson (1990), two adolescent perpetrators admitted to charges of abuse. Both of these sets of data require further analysis to determine which acts of ritual abuse were confessed to by what number of perpetrators.Corroboration and eyewitness accounts offered by children should also be given serious attention when therapists and investigators can demonstrate that no contamination of the children’s disclosures has taken place. In the case studied by Jonker and Jonker-Bakker (1991), children from different schools and different locales gave accounts of perpetrators, abuse locations, and abusive acts that were mutually corroborating. Accounts of tunnels under the McMartin preschool given by children claiming to have been ritually abused at the school were fully corroborated when the existence and location of the tunnels were documented by a professional team of archaeologists (Summit, 1994)."from Denying Ritual Abuse of ChildrenThe Journal of Psychohistory 22 (3) 1995
— Catherine Gould
There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.
— William James
Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn't really happen. We imagine it. It is hallucination.' He pushed the thought under instantly. The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a 'real' world where 'real' things happened. But how could there be such a world? What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.
— George Orwell, 1984
Swag is not something you wear, it is something you are born with.
— Batuhan Ibal
Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
— Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
Maybe your right. Maybe I should blame myself… Who the hell needs that?
— Nana Mary Roseanne
There is no pathos more bitter than that of parting from someone we have never met.
— P.G. Wodehouse
It has become fashionable in the last several years for the media to minimize and even dissemble about the data which so strongly support the existence of ritual abuse. Amazingly, this has happened even in relation to ritual abuse cases in which criminal convictions have been obtained. Parenting magazine (Ruben, 1994), for example, asserted that “far more cases (of ritual abuse) end in acquittal” than in conviction.In fact, 58% of the ritual abuse cases in the Finkeihor (1988) study that went to trial resulted in convictions. In the Kelly (1992b) study, convictions were obtained in 80% of the ritual and sexual abuse cases combined; since there were no significant differences between the rates of criminal conviction in these two groups, we can surmise that convictions were obtained in approximately 80% of the ritual abuse cases Kelly studied. Finally, and most significant given the thousands of cases studied, convictions were obtained in 11% of all ritual child abuse cases studied by Bottoms et al. (1991; 1993)."from Denying Ritual Abuse of ChildrenThe Journal of Psychohistory 22 (3) 1995
— Catherine Gould
I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real
— Notorious B.I.G.
Thoughts not only manifest into reality,they define it.
— Jorge Gw, Awesome Happiness Now
A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.
— George Eliot, Adam Bede
Only when we are thrust into the deepest and most terrible corner of life, do we see our real friends emerge from the shadows , one by one- shining the light of comfort and hope. Those are the ONLY friends that matter.
— Ansul Noor
Thomas, says there are no real dragons. Only they are in your head, he says.""Thomas is right, my love, so do not be afraid of the dark.""But they are in my head sometimes, so I guess they are real.
— Karen Harper, The First Princess of Wales
No matter how I want things to stay the same, no matter how discomforting change can be, I am stuck with the certainty that all molecules vibrate; all things are in constant motion; and change will happen. I can either accept that truth or suffer depression when I do not accept the reality that surrounds me. Change is constant; I am not the same person today as the person who put his head down on the pillow last night. Iron Mask
— David W. Earle
No One is Unlucky in this World"! ..!!! "But Ups and Downs created by ourselves".
— Nasir
Quantum jumping is the process by which a person envisions some desired result or state of being that is different from the existing situation—and by clearly observing that possibility and supplying sufficient energy, makes a leap into that alternate reality.
— Cynthia Sue Larson, Quantum Jumps: An Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity
For eventually one gets over reality’s affront to one’s innocence. One grows accustomed to the melancholy fact that we all sell ourselves at one time or another, that whoring is the dirty little secret of our success as human beings.
— Paul Russell, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered
You beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They may come. If so, then face them and overcome them. Until then, pay them no mind. You have enough to think on.
— Jim Butcher, Cursor's Fury
Do you know the feeling you get when you are awakened in the middle of a dream? The dream story is still real and full of color, but the waking world is rushing back into your mind. And for a moment both worlds are true, and you cannot quite tell them apart.
— Shannon Hale, Palace of Stone
One concrete way in which we all landscape our sanity is by having our experience of reality confirmed by others. When our experience of reality is disconfirmed by others, our confidence in our own sanity can be undermined. (page 125, Chapter 9, Graeme Galton)
— Graeme Galton, Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder
But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.
— Nenia Campbell, Black Beast
She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.
— Nenia Campbell, Fearscape
If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.
— Aleatha Romig, Consequences
Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and a corset. Doesn't make sense to others, but it's not for them. It's what keeps you together, what keeps you going.
— Alyse M. Gardner
I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had engaged in as a participant, but to which I had, nevertheless, grown inexplicably irrelevant. But the elements of this phenomenon are now quickly dissolving from memory and being replaced by reverse-engineered Random Access actualizations of junk code/DNA consciousness, the retro-coded catalysts of rogue cellular activity. The steel meshing titters musically and in its song, I hear a forgotten tale of the Interstitial gaps that form pinpoint vortexes at which fibers (quanta, as it were) of Reason come to a standstill, like light on the edge of a Singularity. The gaps, along their ridges, seasonally infected by the incidental wildfires in the collective unconscious substrata.Heat flanks passageways down the Interstices. Wildfires cluster—spread down the base trunk Axon in a definitive roar: hitting branches, flaring out to Dendrites to give rise to this release of the very chemical seeds through which sentience is begotten. Float about the ether, gliding a gentle current, before skimming down, to a skip over the surface of a sea of deep black with glimmering waves. And then, come to a stop, still inanimate and naked before any trespass into the Field, with all its layers that serve to veil. Plunge downward into the trenches. Swim backwards, upstream, and down through these spiraling jets of bubbles. Plummet past the threshold to trace the living history of shadows back to their source virus. And acquire this sense that the viruses as a sample, all of the outlying populations withstanding: they have their own sense of self-importance, too. Their own religion. And they mine their hosts barren with the utilitarian wherewithal that can only be expected of beings with self-preservationist motives.
— Ashim Shanker, Sinew of the Social Species
When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.
— Raheel Farooq
Seeing all lifein perfect symmetry.Perceiving each daywith righteous clarity.Living each momentin purposed reality.Believing each dayis the start of eternity.
— S. Tarr, Love, Adventure and Other Noble Quests
Never underestimate the power of a pity fuck, which makes for about ninety percent of women’s collective dating history.
— Alice  Walsh, A Poker Game of Love
Truth is individual.”“What? No it’s not. Truth is . . . it’s Truth. Reality.”“Your truth is what you see,” Pattern said, sounding confused. “What else could it be? That is the truth that you spoke to me, the truth that brings power.
— Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are.
— Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Reality blithely ignores the lies we tell ourselves about it.
— Chris Cogan
My trouble is that I think there is a track that things should stay on. I'm hooked to a belief that life should go a certain way. I develop an attachment to Plan A and set up my expectations accordingly. An important part of spiritual practice is to learn to let go, to recognize that Plan A exists only in my head.
— Denise Roy
My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like understand. But then I knew he would not understand or would not want to understand at all and would do all the veshches I had done, yes perhaps even killing some poor starry forella surrounded with mewing kots and koshkas, and I would not be able to really stop him. And nor would he be able to stop his own son, brothers. And so it would itty on to like the end of the world...
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
A heart has its multiple facets of daily music. Respect a genuine good heart.
— Angelica Hopes
All that is popular is not always right. All that is right is also not always popular. Somewhere in between, lies all that is real!
— rajuda
The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to be a metaphor, which suggests a disconnect between truth and what's commonly referred to as reality.
— Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke
I could leave the world of the book enthralled and inspired, but the real world awaited me, to caress or to kick me; reality was a powerful force that could not be ignored.
— Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out
It is amazing how your life changes when you embrace the reality that you're better than the life you've settled for.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
We can make our own plans and judge them by our narrow expectations, or we can experience life as the boundless reality of the One who created it.
— Holly Sprink, Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness
People who want to climb mountains just like taking metaphors for real. So when I say I could murder for a mangosteen, I hope you don’t think I’m going to go out and do that.
— Initially NO, Percipience: Outside the Range of Understood Sense
The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American “witch hunts,” none of them fits that description. McMartin certainly comes close. But a careful examination of the evidence presented at trial demonstrates why, in my view, a reasonable juror could vote for conviction, as many did in this case. Other cases that have been painted as witch-hunts turn out to involve significant, even overwhelming, evidence of guilt. There are a few cases to the contrary, but even those are more complicated than the witch-hunt narrative allows. In short, there was not, by any reasonable measure, an epidemic of “witch hunts” in the 1980s. There were big mistakes made in how some cases were handled, particularly in the earliest years. But even in those years there were cases such as those of Frank Fuster and Kelly Michaels that, I believe, were based on substantial evidence but later unfairly maligned as having no evidentiary support.
— Ross Cheit, The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children
Internal growth and development were not entirely unaffected by my external environment. No amount of escapism, through either the physical or the mental outlets, could cushion me from the reality of what was taking place.
— Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out
Like space, the soul is not an expression of eternal constancy but of constant change, and this motion has but one purpose: to continue forward, on the narrow ledge, in the absurd hope that you can escape the Darkness.
— Erik Valeur, The Seventh Child
As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again.
— Michelle M. Pillow
I thought the morning would bring change. But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second. A moment. In a single breath, reality as you know it can simply fall away.
— Ally Carter, United We Spy
They have their opinions, but we have the answers.
— Anthony Liccione
Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it.
— Nenia Campbell, Black Beast
For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU.
— Steve Maraboli
But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
— Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell.
— Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.
— Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
In my mind I lead a phantom's life. My neighbor makes me real.
— Marty Rubin
Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Dreams become reality through faith and perseverance.
— K.D. Hanes
Modern society becomes more and more complex by the day. What used to be traditional isn’t necessarily traditional anymore.
— Fadi Hattendorf, An Evolving Society
With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-believe they’re happy.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
For the world is a hard place and nothing comes without a price.
— Brom, Krampus: The Yule Lord
Truly to realize the ambitions of a science of mind does not solely involve learning about such issues as how we know, perceive and solve problems; it involves finding out tow hat extent the world outside us is knowable by us, and indeed prescribing the limits of inquiry for disciplines like Physics which claim to afford knowledge of the external physical world.
— Sean O Nuallain, The Search For Mind: A New Foundation For Cognitive Science
The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
And in that moment he realised that even though the dreams they’d seen together, hoped for and believed in had come true, it wasn’t enough. It was far from reality which was lonesome and woeful. And conceived that love had no lastingness, it was brief and momentary. It wasn’t the cherishable sensation spoken of in movies and written in books, rather a delusion inclined on ruining the very spirit, giving way to mournfulness and disappointment.
— Chirag Tulsiani
As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.
— Sarah Cross, Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting a paradox, calling it 'two things that seem to be contradictory but may possibly be true.' But that's not a real paradox--a real paradox IS contradictory and IS true. So I don't even call them paradoxes anymore, I call them 'contradictory co-existing realities,' both in direct opposition to each other, both true at the same time.
— Shellen Lubin
i just stopped from dreaming and woke up,just like a dream to be loved back is just a dream you have to accept,it was just glimpse of hopes you wanna take it to reality, nothing more, nothing less
— Jinnul Jr.
In this way Fate outplayed the efforts of mortals-simply to amuse itself, one might think.
— Erik Valeur, Det syvende barn
He is too presumptuous about the inanities of appearances, poor realities gone for a toss.
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
Internal character: how you behave when no one is watching.
— Bill Courtney, Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
He sees her looking at him with interest, and is encouraged to go on. 'I wouldn't be here with you now. This wouldn't be real - something else would. You'd have been another you, instead of the one you are now. You can't be tied down to a predestined fate when you change according to your situation, and your fate must change too. Everything depends on circumstances - on which "you" you happen to be at a given time...
— Anna Kavan, Who Are You?
The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional
— Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya
Age is just reality we create for ourselves.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Your perception determines your reality.
— The Prophet of Life
Margaux looks around the table; this is not working. All of a sudden she's thinking about a safe room, something she's only heard of but suddenly wants: water, oxygen, bulletproof door, dead bolts, a thousand books. Utterly quiet. Completely silent. No girls she barely knows in saggy leather pants, no girls in mesh strippers' gloves and jeans sanded thin as a bee's wing, and no girls who can't stay home one night a year because they are always and forever out. On their way to. Coming from.And then her heart open. Just a little, but it does. Because she remembers all that. How she felt then: the self-reproach, the utter confusion... That's why her heart opens. For those girls at the table who always feel baffled and sad, tender and malign, repulsive and desirable, innocent and contemptuous of innocence.So she cries. For them, mostly. For herself a little... everything hesitates. So that for a second there's no sound in the enormous room but that of Margaux sobbing.
— Ron Koertge, Margaux with an X
You don't have to do this," Ronan said."There isn't anything else, man.""There's reality."Kavinsky laughed the word. "Reality! Reality's what other people dream for you.""Reality's where other people are," Ronan replied. He stretched out his arms. "What's here, K? Nothing! No one!""Jus
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.
— Nirav Sanchaniya
For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Stop being self-conscious when you write.You are the expert about the world you are creating,no one else. So be bold and write on.
— Nirav Sanchaniya
From Colin A. Ross, 1995: The writer is the brother of the man who co-founded the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. He is writing to WGBH about a program called 'Divided Memories', which you may have seen, that was supposed to be an investigation of memory. This letter also went to Congress and to the press, so it's a public letter. It's just unfortunate that the press, as far as I know, didn't pick it up. 'Gentlemen: Peter Freyd is my brother. Pamela Freyd is both my stepsister and sister-in-law. Jennifer and Gwendolyn [their daughters] are my nieces. There is no doubt in my mind that there was severe abuse in the home of Peter and Pam, while they were raising their daughters. Peter said (on your show, 'Divided Memories') that his humor was ribald. Those of us who had to endure it, remember it as abusive at best and viciously sadistic at worst. The False Memory Syndrome Foundation is a fraud designed to deny a reality that Peter and Pam have spent most of their lives trying to escape. There is no such thing as a False Memory Syndrome. It is not, by any normal standard, a Foundation. Neither Pam nor Peter have any significant mental health expertise. That the False Memory Syndrome Foundation has been able to excite so much media attention has been a great surprise to those of us who would like to admire and respect the objectivity and motives of people in the media. Neither Peter's mother (who was also mine), nor his daughters, nor I have wanted anything to do with Peter and Pam for periods of time ranging up to more than two decades. We do not understand why you would 'buy' such an obviously flawed story. But buy it you did, based on the severely biased presentation you made of the memory issue that Peter and Pam created to deny their own difficult reality. For the most part you presented very credible parents and frequently quite incredibly bizarre and exotic alleged victims and therapists. Balance and objectivity would call for the presentation of more credible alleged victims and more bizarre parents, While you did present some highly regarded therapists as commentators, most of the therapists you presented as providers of therapy were clearly not in the mainstream. While this selection of examples may make for much more interesting television, it certainly does not make for more objectivity and fairness. I would advance the idea that 'Divided Memories' hurt victims, helped abusers and confused the public. I wonder why you thought these results would be in the public interest that Public broadcasting is funded to support.
— William Freyd
He was looking for a brightness, a resolve, a triumph over tomorrow that hardly seemed to be there. Perhaps he had expected their faces to burn and glitter with the knowledge they carried, to glow as lanterns glow, with the light in them...They weren't at all certain that the things they carried in their heads might make every future dawn glow with a purer light, they were sure of nothing save that the books were on file behind their quiet eyes, the books were waiting, with their pages uncut, for the customers who might come by in later years, some with clean and some with dirty fingers.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Sometimes you have to choose between being strong and being honest, if you want real answers.
— Jessiqua Wittman, A Memoir of Mercy
I have noticed that sometimes, our success, promotion and accomplishments become real when we say "no" to some things and act the right way. The potential that drives you to do that is called "self-discipline".
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously
—  the overlapping of these planes was confusing.
...that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove themselves to be such.
— Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World and Other Writings
...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other...
— Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World and Other Writings
Fantasy Is Not Reality, it is unrealistic to expect your future mate to match your fantasies.
— Pamela Cummins, Insights for Singles: Steps to Find Everlasting Love
Don't make a physical decision on an emotional feeling that will led you to mentally suffering in the end.
— Jerome D. Williams
When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don’t invite someone into your world very easily.
— Sara Sheridan, The Pleasure Express
He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors. He felt as if he had left the great séance and all the murmuring ghosts. He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.
— Sara Sheridan, Secret of the Sands
I was not looking for HIM, he was just always there, the little BOY! I have not seen HIM, because I did not want to see, but HE was standing next to my bed every night, the little BOY! I have not heard their cry because I have forbidden HIM there to cry. But one day, when I woke up, did I knew seen, so sad and lonely! I wanted to tell HIM that it's all going to be good. But I could not because I knew that it is not so! And we both cried, I and the LITTLE BOY IN ME!
— - Nirav Sanchaniya
It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call on one’s judgement.
— Sara Sheridan, Brighton Belle
Today, man has been mired in invalidness up to such an extent, that being suspicious about reality isn't in his hand.
— M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier
Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.
— Raheel Farooq
The strenuousness is when,you have to be with and to bear those people who give more importance to the credence over reality.
— M.H. Rakib
While we can certainly be mistaken at times about what is real, there is indeed a reality to know. Mistakes actually prove the point. We would not know there were such things as hallucinations or illusions if we did not have reality with which to compare them.
— Douglas Beaumont, The Message Behind the Movie: How to Engage With a Film Without Disengaging Your Faith
Perception, influenced by experience and knowledge creates an acceptable level of reality.
— Kamil Ali, The Initiates
People's realities are the result of their perceptions.
— Karen Wojcik Berner, Until My Soul Gets It Right
We may be born equal but we do not prepare equally...
— Garrett McCoy
Dreams, Ours mysterious Dreams, they can be Reality
— Erico Quiambao
Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.
— Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.
— Nenia Campbell, Bleeds My Desire
Besides, I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter.
— Charlotte Brontë, Villette
You don't look well," he pronounced."Indigestion," I replied."From what?""Reality.""Join the queue.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
He was a bureaucrat, not a hitman, and most of the time that's what supervillainy looks like in real life.
— Ben Dyer
On a journey the face of reality changes with the mountains and rivers, with the architecture of the buildings, the layout of the gardens, with the language, the skin colour. And yesterday’s reality burns on in the pain of parting; the day before yesterday’s is a finished episode, never to return; what happened a month ago is a dream, a past life. And at last you realize that the course of a life contains nothing but a limited number of such ‘episodes’, that a thousand and one accidents determine where we can build our house at last – but the peace of our poor minds is a precious good freedom that you should not chase, not haggle over, nor should you bargain for it with the dictators who can set fire to our houses, trample our fields and spread cholera overnight.Appalling uncertainty…? Appalling only when we fail to look it in the eyes. But the journey that many may take for an airy dream, an enticing game, liberation from daily routine, freedom as such, is in reality merciless, a school that accustoms us to the inevitable course of events, to encounters and losses, blow upon blow.
— Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey
It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which that culture is conveyed, and with its necessary concomitant, a constant elevation of the standard of veracity, the end of the evolution of theology will be like its beginning—it will cease to have any relation to ethics. I suppose that, so long as the human mind exists, it will not escape its deep-seated instinct to personify its intellectual conceptions. The science of the present day is as full of this particular form of intellectual shadow-worship as is the nescience of ignorant ages. The difference is that the philosopher who is worthy of the name knows that his personified hypotheses, such as law, and force, and ether, and the like, are merely useful symbols, while the ignorant and the careless take them for adequate expressions of reality. So, it may be, that the majority of mankind may find the practice of morality made easier by the use of theological symbols. And unless these are converted from symbols into idols, I do not see that science has anything to say to the practice, except to give an occasional warning of its dangers. But, when such symbols are dealt with as real existences, I think the highest duty which is laid upon men of science is to show that these dogmatic idols have no greater value than the fabrications of men's hands, the stocks and the stones, which they have replaced.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study
He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But something about it struck him as strange. A shimmer, an unsteadiness, as if the building faded forward into stability and then retreated into insubstantial uncertainty. An oscillation, each phase lasting a few seconds and then blurring off into its opposite, a fairly regular variability as if an organic pulsation underlay the structure. As if, he thought, it's alive.
— Philip K. Dick, Ubik
Our life is like a journey…’ – and so the journey seems to me less an adventure and a foray into unusual realms than a concentrated likeness of our existence: residents of a city, citizens of country, beholden to a class or a social circle, member of a family and clan and entangled by professional duties, by the habits of an ‘everyday life’ woven from all these circumstances, we often feel too secure, believing our house built for all the future, easily induced to believe in a constancy that makes ageing a problem for one person and each change in external circumstances a catastrophe for another. We forget that this is a process, that the earth is in constant motion and that we too are affected by ebbs and tides, earthquakes and events far beyond our visible and tangible spheres: beggars, kings, figures in the same great game. We forget it for our would-be peace of mind, which then is built on shifting sand. We forget it so as not to fear. And fear makes us stubborn: we call reality only what we can grasp with our hands and what affects us directly, denying the force of the fire that’s sweeping our neighbour’s house, but not yet ours. War in other countries? Just twelve hours, twelve weeks from our borders? God forbid – the horror that sometimes seizes us, you feel it too when reading history books, time or space, it doesn’t matter what lies between us and it.But the journey ever so slightly lifts the veil over the mystery of space – and a city with a magical, unreal name, Samarkand the Golden, Astrakhan or Isfahan, City of Rose Attar, becomes real the instant we set foot there and touch it with our living breath.
— Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey
Jesus was a penniless teacher who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea, living upon casual gifts of food; yet he is always represented clean, combed, and sleek, in spotless raiment, erect, and with something motionless about him as though he was gliding through the air. This alone has made him unreal and incredible to many people who cannot distinguish the core of the story from the ornamental and unwise additions of the unintelligently devout.
— H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vols. I and II
Any of the girl never ever commit when her intention is to cheat You. So, I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect
— Anuj Kr. Thakur
Sometimes I think of my life as a sitcom. But in reality, life is more than a series of memorable events that bring out the Meg Ryan in us. Life happens in the gaps between scenes. We live in the fade-to-blacks.
— Dorothy Angle
. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along, and with it, a whole lot of prose.
— Roberta Pearce, A Bird Without Wings
Sometimes the unyielding are just fighting to stay alive. No one wants to find out that their life was a lie. And when you change someone’s mind, you are only rebirthing them into your reality. You destroyed one truth just to replace it with your own. And now you’ve just played God, without declaring yourself as God.
— Charles   Lee, The Way To Dawn: Dominion of Eden
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
— Sara Sheridan
While you are not responsible for the actions of another, you are able to consciously respond to everything in your reality. Your power to respond is your power to create.
— Niurka, Supreme Influence: Change Your Life with the Power of the Language You Use
Our Dreams, not just a Dreams, It can be reality.
— Erico Quiambao
Perhaps my sense of reality is not very highly developed, perhaps I lack a sound and reassuring instinct for the solid facts of our earthly existence; I can’t always tell memories from dreams, and often I mistake dreams, coming to life again in colours, smells, sudden associations, with the eerie secret certainty of a past life from which time and space divide me no differently and no better than a light sleep in the early hours.
— Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey
I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
— Ice Cube
You're a romantic,” said Crabbe. “You expect too much. Reality's always dull, you know, but when we see that it's all there is, well-it miraculously ceases to be dull.
— Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger
I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.
— Sara Sheridan
The main reason why your company can easily influence you is because "emotion and attitude are stronger than knowledge". What you see can overcome what you know. You can easily damp away what you already know when you are faced with the reality of what your senses tell you to do!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes