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Home was never a dream for homeless people as they used to have their homes. Living in a home was their reality. Now we need to help them to find the lost-reality again.
— Munia Khan
Everything happens for a reason but sometimes the reason is because you are stupid
— kayser U
...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your entire life thus far was just one big dream.
— Criss Jami
Each being is, exactly as you are, the sole centre of a Universe in no wise identical with, or even assimilable to, your own. The impersonal Universe of Nature is only an abstraction, approximately true, of the factors which it is convenient to regard as common to all. The Universe of another is therefore necessarily unknown to, and unknowable by, you; but it induces currents of energy in yours by determining in part your reactions. Use men and women, therefore, with the absolute respect due to inviolable standards of measurement; verify your own observations by comparison with similar judgements made by them; and, studying the methods which determine their failure or success, acquire for yourself the wit and skill required to cope with your own problems.
— Aleister Crowley
One day with knowing the reality is better than hundred years without knowing the reality.
— Muditha Champika, Theories of Nature and the Universe: Comparison of Pure Buddhist Philosophy and Science
Some say your whole life appears before you like a TV when someone is about to shoot you, but the reality is you barely have any brain control beyond thinking about the muzzle and the finger on the trigger.
— Dauglas Dauglas, Roses in the Rainbow
Pointing a gun at a strong-minded person is just as inconvenient as wearing a bifocal. There are two realities side-by-side
—  one would end shortly and the other had long-term potential.
Sometimes its better to be selfish one or accept yourself as worst among all. The statement given by you will automatically turn into its opposite side. Because people always enhance your worth oppositely.Just being a worst one by your words only. People always love to pluck beautiful Rose but never think to pluck its leafs because those are simply common. That's why leafs can enjoy to live on its place more than beautiful roses.Try to enhance yourself the way you want. But if you get criticism then express yourself as like a common leaf but only externally.
— Agha Kousar
Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself
—  think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy.
Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions.
— Steven Magee
Every time you mistreat someone, you reveal the part of you that lacks love and needs to heal.
— Kemi Sogunle
So what was it then exactly, this truth-telling? ... It was about being true to the very stuff of life, it was about trying to capture, though you never could, the very feel of being alive. It was about finding a language. And it was about being true to the fact, the one thing only followed from the other, that many things in life —of so many more than we think—can never be explained at all.
— Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday
Men who hit do so because they can...someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination.
— Na'ama Yehuda, Emilia
I was used, fucked, broken, toyed with and violated from the age of six.
— James Rhodes, Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication, and Music
The impeccable watchmaker geared the noble self to suffer. The ineluctable part of being human is perpetual sorrow, grief, and misery. Suffering is part of living. Life begins joyously and regretfully ends in tragedy. The cold realities of the world triumphantly crush each one of us. Between birth and death is comedic conjugation, the haunting prelude to the end of the self.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
People will hold an opinion because they want to keep the company of others who share the opinion, or because they think it is the respectable opinion, or because they have publicly expressed the opinion in the past and would be embarrassed by a “U-turn,” or because the world would suit them better if the opinion were true, or . . . Perhaps it is better to get on with your family and friends, to avoid embarrassment, or to comfort yourself with fantasies than to believe the truth. But those who approach matters in this way should give up any pretensions to intellectual seriousness. They are not genuinely interested in reality.
— Jamie Whyte, Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders
difference, distance, absence and seperation lie 'at the heart' of meaning, being and reality
— Maggie MacLure
Barry Schlenker’s self-identity theory (1982) asserts that self-presentation is an attempt to control information about your identity before real or imagined audiences—including yourself. People try to provide explanations of their own conduct; they try to construct an identity that is satisfying to themselves and that explains their behavior in a favorable light. One of the criteria of a good explanation is believability; that is, explanations must fit with existing knowledge. Schlenker argues that people are not motivated to attain cognitive consistency as an end in itself; rather, they need to provide a believable and self -beneficial account of their conduct, and consistency is a by-product of that. The need to provide explanations for your conduct results in the construction of an internally consistent view of reality.
— James Kennedy
Any similarity between existing people and certain characters in this book is due solely to insight into human nature.
— Dimitri Verhulst, De helaasheid der dingen
Not to be rich, but to have money; to have money like a wall to put your back to, and then face the world.
— Mario Puzo
Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Such nice people, the Hillingdons, though she's not really very easy to know, is she? I mean, she's always very pleasant and all that, but one never seems to get to know her better.'Miss Marple agreed thoughtfully. 'One never knows what she is thinking.''Perhaps that is just as well.''I beg your pardon?''Oh nothing really, only that I've always had the feeling that perhaps her thoughts might be rather disconcerting.
— Agatha Christie
People sccumb to injuries and i sccumbed to my thoughts
— irrfan ishaq
We're equal before the law - if we pay the same amount
— David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web
Sometimes, you need to downgrade your dreams to upgrade your reality.
— Jorge P. Guerrero
When one verse in life ends in ignominy, we can use the glimmering marvel of nature’s splendor and frayed edges culled from the black linen of past failures to write uncanny poems that give voice to the fissures in our hollow, reflective poetry that echoes our supple inner world of cherished dreams colliding with the serrated edges of savage realism.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I thought if I told no one it might not be true.
— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
She was always left feeling like a murderer. Because the messenger becomes the murderer. Until the fatal words are spoken, the loved one concerned is still alive, waking, sleeping, going about his business, making telephone calls, writing letters, going for walks, breathing, seeing. It was the telling that killed.
— Rosamunde Pilcher, Coming Home
Fiction described reality better than non-fiction.
— Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up
Talking to the Divine is possible when you have your knowledge, thoughts, mind & body in line, remembering God with every breath. In Sufism, it is called ‘Sama’. But in reality, it should be called ‘Self realization’, I think.
— Taranpreet Singh
It’s like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real.
— Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
If someone tells you that they’re called “blueberries” because they’re berries and they’re blue—believe them.
— Clifford Cohen
The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.
— Richie Norton
We must not fall asleep in the present because the now moment is the only reality we truly have.
— Kat Lahr, Anatomy Of Illumination
Love me like today is the last day we can see stars in the sky, let us sleep under them and throw ourselves into the oblivion and never again reach out for reality.
— Akshay Vasu
Life at times loses its sense of reality; it appears to us like a weird, optical illusion - a phantasmagoric bubble that will disappear at the slightest breath.
— Oscar Wilde, Teleny
Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His time did not travel; it was a block of persisting nows.
— Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing
How had he got here? Only a few minutes ago he'd been a kid, riding his bike to school, collecting comics, doing homework and watching TV. Over the years, a few trappings of adulthood had insinuated themselves into his life withoutmaking significant inroads. Real adult life seemed to exist over there, somewhere as distant and unreachable as Uranus. He had no idea how people crossed over to this place, or why - the demands of being grown up seemed exhausting. Look how I work all the time. See my silky girlfriend. Watch me exchange money for food. Admire my blood pressure.
— Meg Rosoff, Jonathan Unleashed
Every encounter with the external world presents a conflict with a person’s cherished inner world. How we resolve these ongoing boarder conflicts between reality and ideas results in tectonic shifts in our mental makeup, which influx we incorporate by responding to the never-ending chaos of a worldly life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Our exterior world affects our internal landscape, our inner world affects our interpretation of physical sense impressions, and the combination of emotions, thoughts, and physical sensations influences how we address reality.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A man sat down by a tree every day for 2 weeks. It was a beautiful Wisteria tree with purple flowers. Every day, around the same time, he would come to the park and sit by this tree. On the fourteenth day, he came to the park and approached the tree and as he sat down, he closed his eyes as he always did. Only this time when he opened them, the tree withered and died before him. The man then looked around and before he knew it, he had found that he never came to the tree at all, but was in an asylum the whole time.
— Justin Bienvenue, Opium Warfare
The realization of such a thing cannot possibly be as beautiful as its imagining, of course.
— Alyson Foster, God Is an Astronaut
Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.
— Richie Norton
As for dying, he didn't believe that he was frightened of it: the manner of it, perhaps, but not the fact of it. After all, he had reached an age where dying had started to become an objective reality instead of an abstract concept.
— John Connolly, The Reapers
Never forget your past for your future as one day your future will again be your past
— Mizan Chaudhury
When the river of emotions bursts its banks and expectations go over the edges of reality, the brain creates hallucinations. Ringxiety-stricken people feel illusive vibrating alerts and hear phantom phone rings, since absence of ringing generates scaring emptiness and destroys their self-esteem. ("Kein Schwein ruft mich an" )
— Erik Pevernagie
Memories sharpen the past
—  it is reality that decays.
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.
— Salman Rushdie
There are just some things that are outside of comprehension, even if we can quantify them. At some point, science becomes magic.
— Jay Hosking, Three Years with the Rat
Not for everyone a darkest night is bid farewell by a bright sunrise.
— Saud khan
In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to the detriment of reality. When we recount history, we tend to use the life experience of one person — the “journey” of a particular “hero,” in the lingo of the mythologist Joseph Campbell — as a prism for understanding everything else.
— Chuck Klosterman
The exact symptom of sad people is their innocence and honesty but these kind of people always at the top of success...
— Agha Kousar
Since language produces meaning within an enclosed system, there is always a built-in untranslatability, which national languages began to deliberately pursue. The process added to the creation of an untranslatable "reality" that can be expresses only in a particular language. It also added to the discovery of untranslatable "truths.
— Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English
The structure of the universe is a computational geometry that is fractal in nature.
— R.A.Delmonico
If the universe is made of information then, we are moving from a state of profound truth to a state of meaningless gibberish.
— R.A.Delmonico
What is man but an illusion perceiving itself in a nested hierarchy of holographic information.
— R.A.Delmonico
The nature of reality is such that every sufficiently complex event is statistically impossible, they are all one time events. This is a dynamic of novelty and so anything stable is forced to fluctuate including meaning. When we measure a thing we may not see the dynamics as a consequence of resolution. This is because the holographic information field has a nested hierarchy of scale.
— R.A.Delmonico
He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.
— Jorge Ramos
I have a tendency to break rules and shake things up. I would say that with me people never know what is real and what is fiction. And I like that because reality is relative.
— Nuno Roque
life is a question unanswered till its end
— Agha Kousar
Do whatever you want, even spend time with any one or help any one. Don't keep any expectation that the person you are helping today he will give u same manner tomorrow. This expectation is one of the big obstacle between you and your success. Be independent, limited and love yourself. Enhance your personality instead of wasting time and energy by planning to take revenge. Because best revenge for your enemies is not their defeat but they will get defeat by your success
— Agha Kousar
There is another world, but, it is in this one.
— Paul Éluard
Truth be told, I liked that blurriness. That line where reality and fiction jutted up against each other.
— Brittany Cavallaro, A Study in Charlotte
Distance gives a clearer view. You can't see the facade of a building while staying inside.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
There is nothing out here...it is all inside;it is all in my head.The things that happen do not existunless I give them meaning.To be able to define everythingis where my greatest weakness lies.To be able to feelis the madness I need to make senseof the things that strike me.People strike me,love strikes meand everything else moves mein such a waythat I could barely understand.I feel,and everything I feel is nothing;nothing but an extensionof the mindandof the heart I was born with.
— Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly
In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to make himself, so to speak, a case which would isolate him and protect him from external influences. Reality irritated him, frightened him, kept him in continual agitation, and, perhaps to justify his timidity, his aversion for the actual, he always praised the past and what had never existed; and even the classical languages which he taught were in reality for him goloshes and umbrellas in which he sheltered himself from real life.
— Anton Chekhov, The Complete Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you live outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature. Muad'Dib came to tell you about that. Without understanding his message, you cannot revere him!
— Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare.
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
A warm dead photograph is much livelier than a living cold reality!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You don't get to become someone's hero unless you are already another's monster.
— Adhish Mazumder
A blink of an eye is what separates you from reality.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
A girl who travels knows that deep down she is escaping reality. So she’ll want someone to give her hope and land back to the idea that reality isn’t as bad as it seems in the end. And if she tells you she loves you - it is exactly because you give her that hope
— lauren klarfeld
There is no past and future for those who exist in the now. Live in the moment, today is the only reality.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
Stop trying to change reality by eliminating complexity.
— David Whyte
True love doesn’t exist, for, love is always true. If it is not true, then it is not love at all.
— Ashmita Acharya, The Beginning: The Tears of My Heart
If you’re not carefulyou’ll end up believing this is the world
— Antonio Cisneros, Spider Hangs Too Far From the Ground
Even heaven and hell arise just as we think they should be for we are each beings of consciousness creating our own reality.
— Jay Woodman
When the time is right, you will find your space in universal design. That space is the reality of our consciousness; rest is layers upon layers of memories, desires, and insecurities of mind.
— Shashi, Songs of the Mist
Don't fall for the ones who say, I am always yours. They are liars, unfortunately humans too
— Rushabh Patel
Beautiful Oneyou'll graspone dayjust how sufficientand goodyou are as you are. Title: SUFFICIENT, Tara Estacaan
— Tara Estacaan
Haida stopped and glanced at the clock on the wall. Then he looked at Tsukuru. He was, of course, Haida the son, but Haida the father has been the same age in his story, and so the two of them began to overlap in Tsukuru's mind. It was an odd sensation, as if the two distinct temporalities had blended into one. Maybe it wasn't the father who had experienced this, but the son. Maybe Haida was just relating it as if his father had experienced it, when in reality he was the one who had. Tsukuru couldn't shake this illusion.
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Nothing is wonderful than the silence being the reason to meets u
— Agha Kousar
I decided to give up meaningless sex, but then I remembered that everything is meaningless.
— Oli Anderson
People love you for what they want to see in you, not for what you are. That's a sad thing to learn.
— Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead
Expectations are nothing more than the rules we set, in order to maintain our ego and self esteem. What we seek from others is often that fulfillment of what we believe we require for happiness. However, many of us will raise the requirements so high that we can't even reach them or better yet, realize that we could find that expectation met by our own introspection and action.
— Shannon L. Alder
Don’t be an interpreter of reality, be a visionary. Don’t think about it, see it!
— Osho, And The Flowers Showered Discourses On Zen
Men have nothing in common with me--there is no point of contact; they have foolish little feelings and foolish little vanities and impertinences and ambitions; their foolish little life is but a laugh, a sigh, and extinction; and they have no sense. Only the Moral Sense. I will show you what I mean. Here is a red spider, not so big as a pin's head. Can you imagine an elephant being interested in him-- caring whether he is happy or isn't, or whether he is wealthy or poor, whether his sweetheart returns his love or not, whether his mother is sick or well, whether he is looked up to in society or not, whether his enemies will smite him or his friends desert him, whether his hopes will suffer blight or his political ambitions fail, whether he shall die in the bosom of his family or neglected and despised in a foreign land? These things can never be important to the elephant; they are nothing to him; he cannot shrink his sympathies to the microscopic size of them. Man is to me as the red spider is to the elephant. The elephant has nothing against the spider--he cannot get down to that remote level; I have nothing against man. The elephant is indifferent; I am indifferent.
— Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
Nothing is real. There is only what we believe in and what we reject.
— Lauren Kate, Teardrop
You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there.
— Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
I guess I was sad that love was not real? Or not all that real, anyway? I guess I was sad that love could feel so real and the next minute be gone, and all because of something Abnesti was doing.
— George Saunders
But in real life things don't go smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news. It isn't always the case, but from experience I'd say the gloomy reports far outnumber the others. The messenger touches his hand to his cap and looks apologetic, but that does nothing to improve the contents of the message. It isn't the messenger's fault. No good to blame him, no good to grab him by the collar and shake him. The messenger is just conscientiously doing the job his boss assigned him. And this boss? That would be none other than our old friend Reality.
— Haruki Murakami
God' is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life
—  'Ego' is whatever within you stops you taking it.
DeYtH Banger is a character, who is famous because of me, who is created by me and who lives by me...
— Deyth Banger
WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG, Papa used to tell me that words fly on wild winds from the mouths of sly people. When the winds pick up, he said, sand blows into your ears and bites your eyes. Storms build overhead like a lake with a spout, but you can’t see or hear. Only when you are safely sheltered, Papa said, can you tell which way the wind is blowing. Only from the calm, he said, can you see how to protect yourself from trouble.
— Lawrence Hill
Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation…
— Northrop Frye
I hate the way my mother thinks.
— M
But in real life things don't go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news. It isn't always the case, but from experience I'd say the gloomy reports far outnumber the others. The messenger touches his hand to his cap and looks apologetic, but that does nothing to improve the contents of the message. It isn't the messenger's fault. No good to blame him, no good to grab him by the collar and shake him. The messenger is just conscientiously doing the job his boss assigned him. And this boss? That would be none other than our old friend Reality.
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
What the sense feels, what the spirit perceives, is never an end in itself. But sense and spirit would like to persuade you that they are the end of all things: they are as vain as that.
— Nietszche
Everything within reality has some price to be paid at some point.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Persistence drives the achievement of the desired outcome for reality.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
You can lie to yourself about all kinds of things. Until you can't, anymore. Until reality pounds a hole through your fantasy castle and the reality check must be cashed in.
— Ann Aguirre, The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things
Beware the faces that bare the most smiles.For they are the ones who hide the most sadness—.
— A.R. Von
When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.
— Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
The minute we run away from reality, we become our own fears for a lifetime
— Goitsemang Mvula
Our decisions are influenced by our beliefs and this is why we say our reality is what we believe in.
— Namrata Kumari, Change Your Beliefs To Change Your Reality
So reality your mother builds you a room in which to run and test, your father give you the stuff on which to handle. Tests and everything needed and you just upgrade yourself!
— Deyth Banger
If you don't believe in time, your day will be longer (because reality time is an illusion, it exist only because of us and if we don't exist time doesn't exist!?)
— Deyth Banger
Reality can exceed even your wildest dreams.
— Brownell Landrum, Repercussions: DUET stories Volume IV - Adult Version
You don’t create your reality. You co-create your reality.
— Brownell Landrum, Repercussions: DUET stories Volume IV - Adult Version
The language of mathematics, scientific observations, and our perceptivity together knit the window to reality.
— Neeti Sinha, Physical Laws of the Mathematical Universe: Who Are We?
Imagination is one of the few things a man can count on if he's got the reality to feed it.
— James          Anderson, The Never-Open Desert Diner
FLATOW: So you would - how would you treat a patient like Sybil if she showed up in your officeBRAND: Well, first I would start with a very thorough assessment, using the current standardized measures that we have available to us that assess for the range of dissociative disorders but the whole range of other psychological disorders, too. I would need to know what I'm working with, and I'd be very careful and make my decisions slowly, based on data about what she has. And furthermore, with therapists who are well-trained in dissociative disorders, we do keep an eye open for suggestibility. But that research, too, is not anywhere near as strong as what the other two people in the interview are suggesting.It shows - for example, there's eight studies that have a total of 11 samples. In the three clinical samples that have looked at the correlation between dissociation and suggestibility, all three clinical samples found non-significant correlations. So it's just not as strong as what people think. That's a myth that's not backed up by science." Exploring Multiple Personalities In 'Sybil Exposed' October 21, 2011 by Ira Flatow
— Bethany L. Brand
All experiences, emotions, behaviors and beliefs, that make us humans, are the creation of various intricate and inexplicable molecular interactions within the brain.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Art of Neuroscience in Everything
To be honest, as a species we may not live long enough to ever understand the true reality of the universe. But as the foundation of consciousness lies within the domain of biology one day we shall know all there is to know about it.
— Abhijit Naskar, Homo: A Brief History of Consciousness
If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.
— Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
There are some things in life that we try to ignore, thinking that maybe if we don't see the problem, it won't see us when in reality, it's only getting bigger.
— Caitlyn Paige
Life is beautiful – but no one comes out of it alive. So live each day as if it’s your last. Walk in the sunshine. Dance beneath the stars. Laugh hard and long and never, ever forget how very special you are.
— Sarah Grimm, Wrecked
Remember seeker, our earthly perceptions of reality are just an illusion.
— Earthschool Harmony, Back To Grace: Spiritual poetry and reflections
Empowering Women 101: Know the difference between real love and a person that is with you because it is easy and convenient. A real woman doesn't live in the fantasy that he just all of a sudden knew you were the one and no one else believes that either. Be willing to settle and accept the situation or work on it. However, don't sit in denial and pretend going through hell in a relationship was required before he saw your worth. He should have known from the beginning.
— Shannon L. Alder
A STORY NEVER TOLD BEFORE
— Chandra Sekhar, Failure Race :  A story never told before
The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.
— Criss Jami
Why do you want to run away from reality?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is travelled at a pace one decides for themselves
— Chandra Sekhar, Failure Race :  A story never told before
Owing to thousands of generations of over-justification bred into them to keep from the maddening awareness of the true composition of the world, people had a tendency to give themselves the freedom to do whatever Shane told them, as long as it did not conflict too much with their self-preservation.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
Susie: Maybe we're all making everything up as we go.
— Martine Leavitt, Calvin
Life can be compared to fishing, you can get anything you want, as long as you use the right bait.
— Cory R Lewis
99 % of the reason a person doesn't do something are 100% correct
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
Adventure is the best way to feel the reality thoroughly!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Each being in the universe, therefore, inhabits a private world. It is as if the universe were populated by countless cinemas, each occupied by a single person, each eternally viewing a different film projected by consciousness, each eternally suspending disbelief. For the Yogacara, ignorance and suffering result from believing the movie to be real, from mistaking the projections to be an external world, from thinking that what appear to be external objects are independent of consciousness, and then running after them, desiring some and hating others. For the Yogacara, wisdom is the insight that everything is of the nature of consciousness and the product of one's own projections. With this insight, desire and hatred, attachment and aversion, naturally cease, for their objects are seen to be illusions. With the achievement of enlightenment, the substratum consciousness is transformed into the mirror like wisdom of a buddha.
— Donald Lopez
We choose our present moment. The choices we make here and now is what shape our reality tomorrow.
— Jose Incer, Mastering Success: The Key to Self Empowerment and Higher Consciousnes
If something you desire is not happening, you are not emotionally or mentally ready for it yet. Make your mental adjustment in the now, and the reality will follow.
— Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
Timelessness is realizing that everything that has ever or will ever happen already exists simultaneously in another reality or dimension.
— Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.
— Stefan Zweig, Chess Story
We all think of doing something distinctive in life. We all do dream of becoming great and leaving distinctive footprints but, when we get that dream, we must get a clear understanding of what it takes to be great. We must get the real picture of what it takes to live and leave distinctive footprints. We need to understand the real reasons why we must pursue to the end notwithstanding how arduous the journey to greatness may be and the tangible and intangible costs we may have to pay. We must have a nimble mind, move with tenacity and dare without retreating. Though we may be ignorant of the certainty, uncertainty and serendipity we may meet, we must think ahead! Vision shall always be a vision until we take that step of fortitude to make it a reality. When you dream of what is distinctive, make it happen!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Life is a constant battle of fighting your own fears and not absorbing others. Don’t fill the empty spaces of your heart with the fears of others in your life. It is the highly anxious person that will tell you that certain people and experiences need to be labeled and kept either close or at a distance. They go to great lengths to categorize things, in order to feel balance in their life because they are out of balance. Life to them is about control and making you believe that their perfect world is normal when there is nothing normal about it. Highly anxious people live through manipulating their world into what is easy and palatable to them and they can easily pull you into an unrealistic view of the world around them. You constantly have to reassess what is reasonable and what is over exaggerated because fear drives their every action.
— Shannon L. Alder
Depression is a reality with everyone. What’s important is the ability to move on.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Unless we take the time to regain our perspective and face the reality that life is short, we risk arriving at a destination we didn’t choose—or at least one we wouldn’t prefer.
— Michael Hyatt, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
We're told to plug our nosesto escape the smells. Manure.Rot.Poverty?Reality.
— Holly Bodger, 5 to 1
There's no ideology, only people.
— Peter Tieryas, United States of Japan
Different minds perceive different things, but all are imprisoned, asleep in a paradigm of material reality. Awakened minds bearing a more malleable paradigm, such as those of mages, can bend its rules, but never truly break them. To cross that boundary is to become something more and less human. A god, but absent the restraint.
— Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 上
Life appear's across the limits.
— Sohail Umar
We have accepted it as our unique problem and the fate of our kingdom and have found ways to live on without the sun. We all can be happy if we choose to be."- Sari
— Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise
One moment people should learn that they must find their answers not to ask but to find. In real life you can't always ask, if you are ask you show how much stupid are you really!
— Deyth Banger
Open your eyes. Reality awaits.
— F.Zsolt
Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake.
— Stephen King
You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.
— Richard Adams, Watership Down
Life has many insignificant pursuits that add little or no value to your reality.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
What’s going on outside, Ravic?” “Nothing new, Kate. The world goes on eagerly preparing for suicide and at the same time deluding itself about what it’s doing.” “Will there be war?” “Everyone knows that there will be war. What one does not yet know is when. Everyone expects a miracle.” Ravic smiled. “Never before have I seen so many politicians who believe in miracles as at present in France and England. And never so few as in Germany.” She remained lying silent for a while. “To think that it should be possible—” she said then. “Yes— it seems so impossible that it will happen some day. Just because one considers it so impossible and doesn’t protect oneself against it.
— Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
Start changing your reality today by setting your desires in motion by connecting to the heart consciousness - mould your life to suit what you want to experience.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
Desire is one of the main drivers in creating your reality
—  utilise desire by focusing it upon the things you want to achieve in life.
Create your own heaven on earth by utilising the power of your heart to bring your true desire into your reality.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
Be a visionary, focused upon your ability to create your desires within your reality.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
Thought: everyone had their own thought, but those who writes had their own view and people make several views on that one view. Its not fair, he who thinks only can describe what the reality is not by others.
— Nutan Bajracharya
All that matters is that your perception of reality is what you truly desire.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Still, though, I can’t be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it? I sometimes feel that it’s too vivid, if you know what I mean. And when I start having thoughts like this, the more I think about it, the less I can tell how much of the vividness is real and how much of it my imagination has invented.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Heart & Mind when in unison is the most powerful creative state for bringing your desires alive within your reality.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
There are always choices. But sometimes there are no good ones.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate
We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.
— Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
They had stopped shouting at each other and put their faith in legal counsel. With the result that how things could be made to look was what counted, not how they actually were.
— William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?
— Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Time' is the illusional domain occupied by the state of boredom. 'Space' is the infinite - reality - experienced by the state of higher creative consciousness. Choose wisely.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Whatever may happen, the memories of then will always remain, ever so sweetly with me, nothing to tarnish it. Not even the ugliness of reality.
— Saim Cheeda
Could feel the reservation wheeling around him, changing shape so that he nearly had to vomit, or hold his arms to his head and scream against it all.
— Stephen Graham Jones, Ledfeather
To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impossible distinction to draw. Therefore, in order to pin down reality as reality, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist. But something can happen to sever that chain and we are at a loss. What is real? Is reality on this side of the break in the chain? Or over there, on the other side?
— Haruki Murakami
I've been toldThat it's not enough toWish for dreams, that IHave to work themInto reality.
— Jordan Hoechlin
Being a true friend is giving of the one thing you can NOT get back
—  Time
...in a fairy tale, the story can't be altered. The prince and princess will never have a fight. You'll never hear the queen raise her voice. No on ever gets sick; no one ever gets hurt. Maybe love is only safe in places where it can't change.
— Jodi Picoult, Off the Page
Every time you used, it was a risk searching for a high just like the first time, a high you would never find again.
— Bob Pastorella, Mojo Rising
I teach what compels us to question our reality
— Bert McCoy
The consequence of your illusions is your reality.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Situations spin out of control because care was not taken to carefully manage reality through desires.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Everyone is the creator of their own perceived illusion of reality.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Your reality is based upon your beliefs.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Whatever you don't completely reject outright is taken as acceptance by reality.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Life is fleeting, and the wonder can be lost within the confusion of worldly reality.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.
— Camille Paglia
It is not the monsters we should be afraid of
—  it is the people that don't recognize the same monsters inside of themself.
Paradox  /pera,daks/ noun1. Being told to wake up and come back to reality by your family and friends, while being dragged to church to hear a lesson on Jonah and the whale, followed by a sermon on believing in things you can't see without faith.
— Shannon L. Alder
In spring, the snow must go; in fall, the leaves can't stay.
— Marty Rubin
It has been utterly exhausting to love you.
— Tan Redding, A Banquet Of Crumbs
the worst thing, the thing that makes me want to blow my brains out, is: The secondhand experience is always better. The image is crisper, the view is keener, the camera angle and the soundtrack manipulate my emotions in a way reality can’t anymore. I don’t know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script. It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
But it turned out life was more like the kind of song the Stones wrote: you didn't get any satisfaction, you took one hit to the body after another, if you were a woman you were a bitch who belonged under someone's thumb, and if you wanted mother's little helper from your dear doctor you better have the silver, take it or leave it, and don't come crying for sympathy, that was just for the devil.
— Joe Hill
It doesn’t take long for your fortunes to turn. One second you’re fluttery as a bird, the next you’re on the ground with your wings clipped.
— Saim Cheeda
She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free.
— Tan Redding, A Banquet Of Crumbs
Their conversation was like root canal without anaesthesia.
— Tan Redding, A Banquet Of Crumbs
Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?
— Patrick Ness
Our bird of hope was being denied the altitude it sought, just free enough to fly dangerously close to the reality of the treetops.
— Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
Do not read books to escape reality. Read them to understand the reality you live in.
— Eric Freh
As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand
Believe not in the reality, but believe in the possibility.
— Debasish Mridha
You really are a ray of sunshine, aren’t you?
— Sarah Grimm, Wrecked
I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.
— Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
...Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.
— Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye
It is often asserted that, in view of the situation in quantum theory, object and subject can no longer be sharply separated. 1 To use Heitler’s words, the ‘separation of the world into an “objective outside reality”, and “us”, the self-conscious onlookers, can no longer be maintained. Object and subject become inseparable from each other’. 2 This, according to Bohr, is due to ‘the impossibility of any sharp separation between the behaviour of atomic objects and the interaction with the measuring instruments which serve to define the conditions under which the phenomena appear’. 3 Heitler elaborates the point in some detail. ‘One may ask’, he writes, ‘if it is sufficient to carry out a measurement by a self-registering apparatus or whether the presence of an observer is required.’ And he arrives at the conclusion that the self-registering apparatus is insufficient, and that ‘the observer appears, as a necessary part of the whole structure, and in his full capacity as a conscious being’.
— Karl R. Popper
Evil is appealing, evil is attractive, evil is stylish. However, evil is still evil and it deserves to be treated just like that.
— Lakshya Bharadwaj
Reality is different with different states of mind.
— Debasish Mridha
Dreaming is good, but actions are better. Actions are what transform dreams into reality.
— Debasish Mridha
They floated for a while, two flesher-shaped creatures and a giant worm in a cloud of spinning metal fragments, an absurd collection of imaginary debris, glinting by the light of the true stars.
— Greg Egan
There is no reality other than perceptual reality.
— Debasish Mridha
Badmouthing things and other people is another way to appear smarter in front of the many.It's sad that some people use this dirty trick just to increase their self worth...
— Adrian Alconera
The truth can set us free but can hurt us sometimes...
— Adrian Alconera
After two decades there she was, in front of him, almost within touching distance, not faded like in his dreams, but bright and clear and vividly real, looking comfortably, almost defiantly, the same as she always had and then everything she had never been.
— Tan Redding, A Banquet Of Crumbs
Your persistent deep driving desires and your intentional actions will become your reality.
— Debasish Mridha
Realize Realization with Knowledge!
— Joseph Berar
I THINK MYSELF TO BE SMART,I WOULD WIN EVEN THE DART,SUCCESS IS IN MY CART,TILL I KNOW REALITY PART,I DON'T KNOW EVEN TO START.
— merlin8thomas
When I said confront, I meant that you need to confront the reality of your situation. You've made certain choices over your time here, and only you know why you made them. All of that, all of those decisions, have led you to where you are now.
— Charlotte Huang, Going Geek
What is reality today was but a dream and an imagination not that long ago.
— Debasish Mridha
Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life?People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succeed (the future).Very simply, they get overtaken by those who continually strive to be better than they are.
— Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
— Samuel Johnson
it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).
— Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me.
— Charlotte Brontë, Shirley