c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.
— Parker J. Palmer
It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a single nebula whose truth is indecipherable.
— Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
A funeral is like a little game, really. You have to just play along and say the right thing and behave the right way until it’s over. Be pleasant but don’t smile too much; be sad but don’t overdo it or the family will feel worse than they already do. Be hopeful but don’t let your optimism be taken as a lack of empathy or an inability to deal with the reality. Because if anybody was to be truly honest there would be a lot of arguments, finger-pointing, tears, snot, and screaming.
— Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
Our perception could either be our path to nirvana or an invisible cage that bottles us up.
— Pawan Mishra
Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs—and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.
— Pawan Mishra
One is often unconsciously surrounded by one’s own personal reality
— Pawan Mishra
Love is reality without judgement
— Prince Ea
The pale fabric of reality has so many hidden pockets that we can find some change in here somewhere - you just have to dig a little deeper to avoid the chewing gum and past mistakes.
— Corey Taylor
Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing.
— Pawan Mishra
Sometimes love them more than you, but just make sure you love yourself too.
— Dominic Riccitello
He was good and then really good and then bad and then really bad, but since he was good I got lost in the thought that I could fix it.
— Dominic Riccitello
Life is not fair, get used to it
— Bill Gates
What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced
— Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have.
— Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
What happens when one has striven long and hard to develop a working view of the world, a seemingly useful, workable map, and then is confronted with new information suggesting that the view is wrong and the map needs to be largely redrawn? The painful effort required seems frightening, almost overwhelming. What we do more often than not, and usually unconsciously, is to ignore the new information. Often this act of ignoring is much more than passive. We may denounce the new information as false, dangerous, heretical, the work of the devil. We may actually crusade against it, and even attempt to manipulate the world so as to make it conform to our view of reality. Rather than try to change the map, an individual may try to destroy the new reality.
— M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
Relationships are the flavors of life.
— Pawan Mishra
One truism lay underneath every choice and word: change what people think and you change the world.
— Michael R.  Fletcher
As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I'm stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.
— Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
If they keep coming back to you, it isn't love. It is because you made yourself and easy option. The moment the thing they truly want becomes less difficult to obtain is when you will realize that your worth was on sale.
— Shannon L. Alder
Since the beginningnot one unusual thinghas ever happened.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal.
— Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Of the things that followed I cannot at all say whether they were what men call real or what men call dream. And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.
— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
I subscribe to the anthropic principle: there are an infinite number of infinite universes, each with slightly different physical laws. Only some of them have the right parameters, such as gravity the right strength to allow stars to be born and live long. Where the charge on the electron is right to allow complex molecules to form, etc.Ours is one that allows intelligent life to form, so that the universe may wonder at itself. We *are* the universe, in wonder of itself. -- Google: "Anthropic principle
— William Donelson
Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.
— Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
Where there is no consciousness, there is no time.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest
If humans created it then it is the product of a choice that somebody made. And if it was chosen it can be changed.
— Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
What is your big project in the New Year? You don’t have one? No dream, no reality! Get a big dream for yourself now to get a big reality tomorrow!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
But that wouldn't be honest. That wouldn't be real. That would give you the idea that a life is a simple thing to tell, that it's obvious where to start--BIRTH--and even more obvious where to stop--DEATH. Fade from black to black. I won't have it. I won't be one of the hundreds telling you that being alive flows like a story you write consciously, deliberately, full of linear narrative, foreshadowing, repetition, motifs. The emotional beats come down where they should, last as long as they should, end when they should, and that 'should' come from somewhere real and natural, not from the tyranny of the theatre, the utter hegemony of fiction. Why, isn't living easy? Isn't it grand? As easy as reading aloud.No.If I slice it all up and stitch it back together, you might not understand what I've been trying to say all my life: that any story is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it. I can't. I can't tell you that lie...If I fixed it so time goes the way you expect, you might come away thinking I know what the hell I'm doing.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance
MARIEAs the day is long and the world is old, lots of people can stand on one spot, one after another.WOYZECKI saw him.MARIEYou can see all sorts of things if you've got two cyes and aren't blind, and the sun is shining.
— Georg Büchner, Woyzeck
There are two types of 'busy': 1)Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.
— Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
If we go in to each situation that life throws at us with an attitude that we canlearn from it then we will never be truly defeated.
— Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
images precede the real, making and shaping it into what we come to name and know as the real, producing it, fabricating it, into the worlds we come to inhabit.
— Brad Evans, Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously
Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny.
— Mamur Mustapha
No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire system becomes infected with madness, including the very rules by which you reason, then how can you ever reason your way out of your madness?
— Rebecca Goldstein, Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
Be Mindful of your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your reality.
— Kemi Sogunle
Building a good relationship with ourselves is essential for inner fulfilment, especially when we run into a large reality gap.
— Russ Harris, The Reality Slap: Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts
To lose a problem, do not oppose, let go of any need to control, perhaps it's all an illusion we project, more like a game we play than real?
— Jay Woodman
Reality is symbolic. We build it using only the 26 symbols of the alphabet alongside images that speak to us on a linguistic level built from the 26 symbols of the alphabet.
— Dean Cavanagh
That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Then focus on thruth, not logic. Stop trying to figure out why and look for what is.
— Kristi Ann Hunter, A Lady of Esteem
I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance––it's a silly thing to strive for. But, satisfaction––if you seek satisfaction you can succeed.
— Lydia Lunch
Life is for those that deserve it. Those kings amongst men who can climb out of barrels and will dare to break through glass walls and to transcend all of this whatever it is, these eyes to the ground, this pretence, acting only as is expected and never as is intended. We have been told what is acceptable in what situation and so we take heed. This is not living. In the real world, in nature, there is no need to pretend. There is no place for it.
— Oli Anderson, Synchronesia: A Depressing Existential Novel
But I didnt do anything wrong.." Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them.
— Holly Black, White Cat
Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet--for me, anyway--all that's worth living for lies in that charm?
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
We welcome into our homes the machines that vacuum the thoughts out of our heads and pump in someone else's. John Berger in Ways of Seeing said that television advertisers succeeded by persuading viewers to envy themselves as they would be if they bought the product. These programmes do something similar, by persuading the viewer to envy himself as he would be if his life were that little bit more exciting and melodramatic than it actually is. They can make things seem normal that are not.
— Peter Hitchens, The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana
People may say it is better to face problems in life but I say run if you believe you can run faster.
— khoshdast
He decided to re-read his story from the beginning. As he read he felt as if he was falling forwards into the blank, white spaces of the screen, and the words faded from his consciousness to be replaced completely by the things that they described.
— K. Valisumbra, Mortlake and Other Stories
Magic has its own weight, and that weight, the gravity of it, is pulling the fabric of reality like a bowling ball on a spandex sheet.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Don't Stop Believing
The USA radio frequency (RF) radiation industry has turned zombie movies into reality.
— Steven Magee, Toxic Electricity
Though we think we see different things from our windows, in reality we see the same things: Happiness and sorrow! All that is seen from every window!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
She’d never spoken to anyone before of this business of being seen, loved for who she was; to have it voiced by this man she’d just met sent chills down her spine.
— Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom
There is too much emphasis on being positive, to the detriment of being real.
— Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom
The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
How do I shape my reality? I use wisdom and strategy to shift the possible to the probable... Then, effort and consistency will bridge the probable to the inevitable. Success is a behavior... I make sure my mindset and actions are working in alignment.
— Steve Maraboli
Imagination, persistence, perseverance, and trust transform dreams into reality.
— Debasish Mridha
It's not about how long you can live , it's about how long you can forget and forgive.
— Abdel Halim Boudekhana
Reality doesn't care about convenience or dramatic story progression.
— Anonymous
I clap so that I can hold on to this feeling. I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It’s the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I’ve lost myself to - which is that I’ll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Day
Up near the top, underlined and in capitals were the words: 'READ THIS.' Jay grimaced as she wondered what she was in for. Would it be a semi-literate political rant, a half-baked conspiracy theory or a quasi-religious manifesto? Perhaps it was just a very long suicide note: a self-pitying list of misfortune and hardship. Whatever it was she doubted it would contain anything useful. Unable to put it off any longer, she finished her coffee and began: 'We are all stories that we tell ourselves, memories selected to fit our chosen form. What becomes of us when there is no-one there to read?
— K. Valisumbra, Mortlake and Other Stories
Action is the only truth. Truth is the only reality. Rest is all thought - philosophy, fantasy or imagination. But, universe is not a thought. Universe is action. How does it matter what the world, society or I think what I am meant to do or what I am born to do? The truth is what I am doing and that's what makes the difference to the world; thats the only reality and that's what reflects the self that I am.
— Rashmit Kalra
It's the same old story. A man came like the beautiful wind, left like a destructive storm.
— Luan
He who sits/stands in front of the fire sees more than the flames.. He feels the heat! Too often from a distance others observe the flames only as a source of light.
— Lennox D. Lampkin
I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Perception and reality are soul mates! They always support each other and even like to hide behind each other.
— Balroop Singh
God did not enter the world of our nostalgic, silent-night, snow-blanketed, peace-on-earth, suspended reality of  Christmas. God slipped into the vulnerability of skin and entered our violent and disturbing world.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
So that, logically, in the brief time allotted to us, we should be as kind to one another as is humanly possible and face the harsh facts of reality without fear or flinching.
— Michael Swanwick, Chasing the Phoenix
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths:  Selected Stories and Other Writings
You brought nothing into this world; you will take nothing from it, but please, leave us with something
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
It was the Kojagar full moon, and I was slowly pacing the riverside conversing with myself. It could hardly be called a conversation, as I was doing all the talking and my imaginary companion all the listening. The poor fellow had no chance of speaking up for himself, for was not mine the power to compel him helplessly to answer like a fool?But what a night it was! How often have I tried to write of such, but never got it done! There was not a line of ripple on the river; and from away over there, where the farthest shore of the distant main stream is seen beyond the other edge of the midway belt of sand, right up to this shore, glimmers a broad band of moonlight. Not a human being, not a boat in sight; not a tree, nor blade of grass on the fresh-formed island sand-bank.It seemed as though a desolate moon was rising upon a devastated earth; a random river wandering through a lifeless solitude; a long-drawn fairy-tale coming to a close over a deserted world,—all the kings and the princesses, their ministers and friends and their golden castles vanished, leaving the Seven Seas and Thirteen Rivers and the Unending Moor, over which the adventurous princes fared forth, wanly gleaming in the pale moonlight. I was pacing up and down like the last pulse-beats of this dying world. Every one else seemed to be on the opposite shore—the shore of life—where the British Government and the Nineteenth Century hold sway, and tea and cigarettes.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Every man has three worlds. What he perceives, what he shows to the world and his reality. The third one is the mystery to be lived.
— Harshit Walia
I mean that certain fictions, chiefly Conan Doyle, Stevenson, but many others also, laid out a template that was more powerful than any local documentary account - the presences that they created, or "figures" if you prefer it, like Rabbi Loew's Golem, became too much and too fast to be contained within the conventional limits of that fiction. They got out into the stream of time, the ether; they escaped into the labyrinth. They achieved an independent existence. The writers were mediums; they articulated, they gave a shape to some pattern of energy that was already present. They got in on the curve of time, so that by writing, by holding off the inhibiting reflex of the rational mind, they were able to propose a text that was prophetic.
— Iain Sinclair, White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings
I had imagined myself into existence. I wrote because of an inner need,and that need was to create a clearer vision of myself, and in writing I became what I wrote.
— Christopher Priest, The Affirmation
Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Built on the insubstantial foundation of our feelings, the life we had created together seemed a figment of our imaginations that dissolved into fairy dust in the face of something real, and deadly, like cancer.
— Kim van Alkemade, Orphan Number Eight
be the rain that causes the rainbow this means, tell someone the hard truth to change their life for the better.
— Mya Waechtler
Life is a rehearsal. Get dressed and be ready to face it daily.
— Kemi Sogunle
Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.
— Johnny Rich
The characters act for reasons that they can’t control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it’s all just puppetry on the part of the writer.
— Johnny Rich
If our life is a dream, let it continue; who wants the reality? If our life is a reality, let it continue; who wants the dream? Unknown is unreliable!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There was a duplication of myself involved, perhaps even a triplication.There was I who was writing. There was I whom I could remember. And there was I of whom I wrote, the protagonist of the story.
— Christopher Priest, The Affirmation
Living is not an art, but to write of life is. Life is a series of accidents and anticlimaxes, misremembered and misunderstood, with lessons only dimly learned. Life is disorganized, lacks shape, lacks story.
— Christopher Priest, The Affirmation
Perception is reality in the absence of fact
— Pieter BF Swart
Be thankful for what you have and you will have more. Thinking of what you don’t have will only keep bringing you nothing.
— Luan
True love makes you sleep and dream. But loud reality wakes you up
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Words fail to describewhat i feel anymore.Let me be numb for a while,let me be sore.
— Anjum Choudhary
Love left us long back,we just got better.You at pretending,Me at hiding.
— Anjum Choudhary
My mind gets stronger everyday,my heart gets weaker with time.
— Anjum Choudhary
I think i should get love inked on my skin.Maybe that's the only way i am destined to keep it.
— Anjum Choudhary
I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys things and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn. But first things first. First, to escape this shell, this egg in which I have gestated, all eyes will be on the fire, all eyes blinded by the smoke, and when I walk out of here, out into your large world with its billions, no one will even see. It's the beauty of light, don't you see, Sam? It reveals, but it also distracts and blinds. It's even better than darkness.
— Michael  Grant, Light
Don't focus on the words i write,pay attention to the ones i don't.These lines won't tell you much about me,try to read in between these lines.
— Anjum Choudhary
And truths, these days, are spokenThe same way promises are made,With gritted teeth and crossed fingers.
— Sanhita Baruah
Feelings are real. They often become one’s reality. But they are not always based on truth.
— Jesikah Sundin, Elements
A question that always haunts me. Why can’t people just be real? It’s easier being real than pretend being real. Give yourself a chance.
— Manasa Rao
It is inevitable that machines will one day become the ultimate enemies of mankind. We are not evolving or progressing with our technology, only regressing. Technology is our friend today, but will be our enemy in the future.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I know assuming is easy, and sometimes, reality does not go in the direction of the assumption, but at least, it gives us hope that things may go just right.
— Aishah Madadiy, Bits of Heaven
In India they tell a fable about this: There was once a great devotee of Vishnu who prayed night and day to see his God. One night his wish was granted and Vishnu appeared to him. Falling on his knees, the devotee cried out, "I will do anything for you, my Lord, just ask.""How about a drink of water?" Vishnu replied.Although surprised by the request, the devotee immediately ran to the river as fast as his legs could carry him. When he got there and knelt to dip up some water, he saw a beautiful woman standing on an island in the middle of the river. The devotee fell madly in love on the spot. He grabbed a boat and rowed over to her. She responded to him, and the two were married. They had children in a house on the island; the devotee grew rich and old plying his trade as a merchant. Many years later, a typhoon came along and devastated the island. The merchant was swept away in the storm. He nearly drowned but regained consciousness on the very spot where he had once begged to see God. His whole life, including his house, wife, and children, seemed never to have happened.Suddenly he looked over his shoulder, only to see Vishnu standing there in all his radiance."Well," Vishnu said, "did you find me a glass of water?
— Deepak Chopra, How To Know God: The Soul's Journey Into The Mystery Of Mysteries
You can get the answer of your every question in the empty hands of the beggar. But still you are questioning why his hands are empty.
— Rumman Bin Sadiq
People need foundation myths, some imprint of year zero, a bolt that secures the scaffolding that in turn holds fast the entire architecture of reality, of time: memory-chambers and oblivion-cellars, walls between eras, hallways that sweep us on towards the end-days and the coming whatever-it-is. We see things shroudedly, as through a veil, an over-pixellated screen. When the shapeless plasma takes on form and resolution, like a fish approaching us through murky waters or an image looming into view from noxious liquid in a darkroom, when it begins to coalesce into a figure that's discernible, if ciphered, we can say: This is it, stirring, looming even if it isn't really, if it's all just ink-blots.
— Tom McCarthy, Satin Island
With persistent focus, commitment and enthusiasm, your dream will be reality.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The certainty within our spirit made the dream reality.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Coffee is to a Writer as Blood is to a Vampire!
— Kade Cook
Perhaps he was probing the enigma of why men fall in love with their dreams, which are then so destroyed by harsh realities that their dreamers become cuckolded by their own illusions. Perhaps...
— Juan Filloy, Op Oloop
The triple of Jeremy Brown's imagination, in reality, is a home run.
— Michael   Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
A man with a finite life can only dream to have an infinite journey and the good news is that any dream has the potential to turn into a reality
— Mehmet Murat ildan
He hurt me,” I whispered, feeling a lump in my throat.“And he’ll probably hurt you again.  But you know what?  You’ll hurt him too.  When you’re with someone for a long time, it’s impossible not to feel hurt." - Larene.
— Emilia Winters, Mr. Blackwell: Part Three
They say All is well In the world of sickness But we know All is sick In the world of wellness
— Robert  Black
..if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was ahurricane.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Reality is not what we see, reality is what we think we see.
— Erik Pevernagie
Life's just a dream. It isn't real. I know that you can't see that yet. You want me to wake up but in my death I did wake up and I saw you were still sleeping.
— Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master
We live in a strange world where people don’t try to know who we are, rather they go by, what they think we are!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.
— Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Expectations have no effect on the harvest.
— Marty Rubin
Reality is a challenge.
— Auliq Ice
And there you stand -Far away from the distant reality,Far away in my breathing dream,Far away in the traces of my livid eyes,Far away in my hostile fantasy.
— Debatrayee Banerjee, A Whispering Leaf. . .
Most people who possess life in reality, do not quite understand what they possess.
— Sunday Adelaja
We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem.
— Patrick McGrath, Trauma
We can change reality just from assumptions accepted as true, regardless if they could be quantifiably accepted as true through the physical
— Russell Eric Dobda
Reality is constructed by our perception, and it does not actually exist without it.
— Russell Eric Dobda
Our thoughts affect our agreement with reality, our story we tell ourselves. IF you want to change your story, start with your thoughts.
— Tony Curl
You have to conquer every mountain to realize the dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Many use the word “Kingdom” flippantly. Even though we sing about it in our praise songs, we talk about it in our sermons, yet we seem to still not understand its reality in our daily lives
— Sunday Adelaja
Reality is changing Viena. You can not stop the cycle.
— Veronica Purcell
Your dreams become your destiny when your plans become your actions!
— Manprit Kaur
The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, since the fulfilment never measures up to what we imagine.
— Fernando Pessoa
When I consider the teachings, doctrines and what happens generally in the body of Christ both here in Europe, America and in Africa, I sometimes feel that I am living in my own reality. Either the whole world is getting it wrong or I am just running crazy
— Sunday Adelaja
According to the reality, I assume that we are not going to meet again. Yet, I do believe that we have met for a reason
— Ahmed Alibage
Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Daydream, which is to thought as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, and is concerned with it as its frontier. An atmosphere inhabited by living transparencies: there's a beginning of the unknown. But beyond it the Possible opens out, immense.Other beings, other facts, are there. No supernaturalism, only the occult continuation of infinite nature. . . . Sleep is in contact with the Possible, which we also call the improbable. The world of the night is a world. Night, as night, is a universe. . . . The dark things of the unknown world become neighbors of man, whether by true communication or by a visionary enlargement of the distances of the abyss . . . and the sleeper, not quite seeing, not quite unconscious, glimpses the strange animalities, weird vegetations, terrible or radiant pallors, ghosts, masks, figures, hydras, confusions, moonless moonlights, obscure unmakings of miracle, growths and vanishings within a murky depth, shapes floating in shadow, the whole mystery which we call Dreaming, and which is nothing other than the approach of an invisible reality. The dream is the aquarium of Night.
— Victor Hugo
We live by a perceptual "map" which is never reality itself.
— Carl R. Rogers, Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory
He comes.And he comesloadedwith noise pollution.If I ever prayed for anything,it was for a manto shut up.
— Casey Renee Kiser, Darkness Plays Favorites
Real life isn't purely filled with roses and rainbows.
— Ken Poirot
She lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Imagination
When you listen to radio you are a witness of the everlasting war between idea and appearance, between time and eternity, between the human and the divine. Exactly, my dear sir, as the radio for ten minutes together projects the most lovely music ithout regard into the most impossible places, into respectable drawing rooms and attics and into the midst of chattering, guzzling, yawning and sleeping listeners, and exactly as it strips this music of its sensuous beauty, spoils and scratches and beslims it and yet cannot altogether destroy its spirit, just so does life, the so-called reality, deal with the sublime picture-play of the world and make a hurley-burley of it.
— Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
When we assess someone's life or health on the basis of surface-level observations or passing comments, it presents us with a very flawed version of reality.
— Evita Ochel, Healing & Prevention Through Nutrition: A Holistic Approach to Eating and Living for Optimal Health, Weight, and Wellness
Every man is a chauvinist, however much he wishes to be otherwise.
— Robyn Donald
There are billions of people in the world, and each one of them has their own view of reality.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
How much would you give to make your dream a living reality? Use the time you have.
— J.R. Rim
Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the windowsill under a tormenting, hot sun.
— Anthony Liccione
This just makes me know and understand that there is no one reality that suits all
—  just one that suits each of us.
Imagination is a reality.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
People don't act the way they do because of me. They just act out their own projection of reality, and so do I.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that's death.
— Tom Stoppard
Reality worked its way into my dreams where it wasn’t welcome.
— Emilyann Girdner, The Labyrinth Wall
The world of possibility exists in everyday life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Life reality tells us that to grow physically, you first need to grow inwardly
— Sunday Adelaja
Denying realism amounts to megalomania.
— Karl R. Popper
Biomasses are a biological reality that cannot be denied as existing, but even though they exist physically, yet they have not attained the height of Homo sapiens. Humans could be termed as biomasses when they don’t fully put into use their human qualifications. Men and women that don’t bother to think. Men and women that don’t bother to notice things that are out of order. People who are indifferent about the happenings around them. Men and women that don’t respond with solution to the challenges of the era. All of these people are united by one common name BIOMASSES.
— Sunday Adelaja
Many use the word “Kingdom” flippantly. Even though we sing about it in our praise songs, we talk about it in our sermons, yet we seem to still not understand its reality in our daily lives.
— Sunday Adelaja
He was her reason for existence,She was his ultimate risk.
— Anjum Choudhary
The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate art.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who have pretended to be villains so well that they believe it themselves. This is how I like to view reality.
— Kenneth Everett
The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.
— Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception
There were plenty of fishes in the pond,yet i fell in love with a crocodile.
— Anjum Choudhary
Normal is the greatest enemy with regard to creating the new. And the way of getting around this is you have to understand normal not as reality, but just a construct. And a way to do that, for example, is just travel to a lot of different countries and you'll find a thousand different ways of thinking the world is real, all of which are just stories inside of people's heads. That's what we are too. Normal is just a construct, and to the extent that you can see normal as a construct in yourself, you have freed yourself from the constraints of thinking this is the way the world is. Because it isn't. This is the way we are.
— Alan Kay
If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.
— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
In my own experience, contacts with the big world outside the typewriter are puzzling and terrifying; I don’t think I like reality very much. Principally, I don’t understand people outside; people in books are sensible and reasonable, but outside there is no predicting what they will do.
— Shirley Jackson, Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
I stare out at the real world projected on the windows
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Believe is confident hope.Hope is faith.Faith is timeless possibility.Possibility is spiritual.Spiritual is divine
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Now, back in the reality that always lies in wait among the shadows of the Ensanche quarter, the enchantment was lifting, and all I had was painful desire and an indescribable restlessness.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Are you in a desert? Then be a camel! Be compatible with the reality!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you ready to discover what is real?
— Jesikah Sundin, Legacy
Probably she was right 'i love her, I'm honest with my feelings' these are my problems not her.' Xavier left this note on the napkin with a pen he was offered to comment in suggestion book at Gloria Jeans.
— M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier
There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another—if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn’t.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The gift of life is the only privilege you desperately need to turn your goals and dreams into realities.
Somewhere down the lane, you'll learn to let go of things which've already left you.
— Kunal Sareen
Once again, he became outraged that humans—more specifically his dad—would rather invest in something pointless than the people right in front of them. Would Earth still suffer and need movements dedicated to its healing if humankind was rooted in reality?
— Jesikah Sundin, Elements
It seemed natural; natural to the moment’s peculiar reality that was sharply clear, but cut off from everything, immediate, but disconnected, like a bright island in a wall of fog, the heightened, unquestioning reality one feels when one is drunk.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
His suffering was no more real than he was.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I have to ask myself - am I Zhuang Zi who dreamed of a butterfly? Or am I that butterfly, dreaming I am Zhuang Zi?
— Zhuangzi
The cognitive science's challenge is to link our consensus reality to our internal reality, but physics' challenge is to link our consensus reality to our external reality.
— Max Tegmark, Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
If you’re looking for family entertainment, don’t study history or prehistory.
— Peter Frost
It was as if a volcano were cracking open, yet the people at the foot of the mountain ignored the sudden fissures, the black fumes, the boiling trickles, and went on believing that their only danger was to acknowledge the reality of these signs.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
People live on the flow of the daily reality and they surge on the waves of hazy expectations. They can experience pleasant junctures and try to catch and enjoy each special moment that is offered to them. Until life takes them by surprise.
— Erik Pevernagie
I collect my thoughts, I choose my words, Whenever I decide to talk to you.But...I feel like a dumb, without a tongue,Whenever I reach in front of you.I wonder why it happens to me?even when my feelings are genuine and true.
— Saad  Salman
You can't speak life to others if you don't know how to speak life to yourself. Dead leaves can't breathe.
— Kemi Sogunle
Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.
— Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Reality calls for a name, for words, but it is unbearable, and if it is touched, if it draws very close, the poet’s mouth cannot even utter a complaint of Job: all art proves to be nothing compared with action. Yet to embrace reality in such a manner that it is preserved in all its old tangle of good and evil, of despair and hope, is possible only thanks to distance, only by soaring above it--but this in turn seems then a moral treason.
— Czesław Miłosz
That had always been the beauty of the wind. It could only be seen through its actions, its effect on others. A gentle reminder that reality does not only exist in the seeable, the palpable, the understandable, but also in the figments and daydreams, the steadfast beliefs and unexplainable uncertainties. Reality is seen and yet unseen. Wholly and absolutely relative. The wind had taught him that.
— Kelseyleigh Reber
No level raised without reading, is like a body trying to live without breathing.
— Ilias Oumarri
It is a crushing moment when you realize that your life has either been a series of huge mistakes, or worse; it hasn’t.
— Temperance
As researchers of the paranormal, we must understand there are ways to change the rhythm of time within us, ways to change the beat. These ways have been known since the beginnings of civilization, and possibly much earlier. And these ways would require no more effort than simply recognizing the secret rhythms of things. Moreover, we may learn to beat with them and begin to perceive a different kind of space, and ultimately discover an altogether different conception of reality…
— Ojo Blacke, Dr. Monroe A. Dunlop's Paranormal Studies Lecture Series, Mind and Reality: A Psychedelic Trip to the Doormat of the Unknown: Fictional Nonfiction, Fifth Edition
Real? What is real? And tell me, what importance does reality have anyway? Did you learn from the experience? Now, that is important!
— Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
their reality was far more interesting than any idealized version could possibly be
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It was an attempt to express their inner significance or to draw attention to realities that were too elusive to be discussed in a logically coherent way.
— Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The reality is that we will continue to hear negative information from many sources. It lies in our will to decide whether to discard them into the waste bin or record them into our brains!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Obviously she's the kind of woman who gives people the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to assume bad stuff first
—  correct it later.
There is no such thing as reality, only our perception of it.
— Becky Mallery
Success is a possibility and a reality to its true seeker.
— Sunday Adelaja
The President called it the “Epitome of the American dream.” Daddy called it the “unholy alliance of business and government.” But all it really was, was America giving up. Bailing out in order to join the Financial Resource Exchange. A multinational alliance focused on one thing: profit. Fund global medical care to monopolize vaccines. Back unified currency to collect planet-wide interest. And provide the resources needed for a select group of scientists and military personnel to embark on the first trip across the universe in a quest to find more natural resources—more profit. The answer to my parents’ dreams. And my worst nightmare. And I know something about nightmares, seeing as how I’ve been sleeping longer than I’ve been alive. I hope. What if this is just a part of a long dream dreamt in the short time between when Ed locked the cryo door and Hassan pushed the button to freeze me? What if? It’s a strange sort of sleep, this. Never really waking up, but becoming aware of consciousness inside a too-still body. The dreams weave in and out of memories. The only thing keeping the nightmares from engulfing me is the hope that there couldn’t possibly be a hundred more years before I wake up. Not a hundred years. Not three hundred. Not three hundred and one. Please, God, no. Sometimes it feels like a thousand years have passed; sometimes it feels as if I’ve only been sleeping a few moments. I feel most like I’m in that weird state of half-asleep, half-awake I get when I’ve tried to sleep past noon, when I know I should get up, but my mind starts wandering and I’m sure I can never get back to sleep. Even if I do slip back into a dream for a few moments, I’m mostly just awake with my eyes shut. Yeah. Cryo sleep is like that. Sometimes I think there’s something wrong. I shouldn’t be so aware. But then I realize I’m only aware for a moment, and then, as I’m realizing it, I slip into another dream. Mostly, I dream of Earth. I think that’s because I didn’t want to leave it. A field of flowers; smells of dirt and rain. A breeze ... But not really a breeze, a memory of a breeze, a memory made into a dream that tries to drown out my frozen mind. Earth. I hold on to my thoughts of Earth. I don’t like the dreamtime. The dreamtime is too much like dying. They are dreams, but I’m too out of control, I lose myself in them, and I’ve already lost too much to let them take over. I push the dream-memory down. That happened centuries ago, and it’s too late for regrets now. Because all my parents ever wanted was to be a part of the first manned interstellar exploratory mission, and all I ever wanted was to be with them. And I guess it doesn’t matter that I had a life on Earth, and that I loved Earth, and that by now, my friends have all lived and gotten old and died, and I’ve just been lying here in frozen sleep.
— Beth Revis, Across the Universe
How old did you have to be before you learned the difference between the simulacrum of love and the reality?
— Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic
We are animals and as animals we kill to survive. Unfortunately some of us are monsters and kill just because they can.
— Richard Myerscough
Unconditional love should not be presumed to be without ardent expectations as also the inevitable disappointment.
— R. N. Prasher
The abrupt reality of his situation was a depressing thought.
— Jason Medina, A Ghost In New Orleans
Not everyone can just up an’ go whenever they please!
— Jason Medina, A Ghost In New Orleans
I Live in Poverty and That's My Inspiration
— Kry Panha
The more you resist, the stronger you get.
— Rohan B. Rebello
Don't base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little.
— Scott Sigler, Alive
Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).
— Criss Jami, Healology
Reality is in the ether, a blend of present-day experiences infused with one’s memories and dreams. A life that is real to one is surreal to another.
— Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 2
I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
The reality is that people reach for a Bible when they're feeling lost. But if they hadn't shelved it, maybe they wouldn't have gotten lost.
— Crystal Woods, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
This world you think you know? It's hidden... in shards of reality.
— Zechariah Barrett
Impossibility is only a whisper away from reality
— Steven Aitchison
What happens when you shut your eyes? The images you have been accustomed to look at suddenly disappear. See through the images by closing your eyes and opening your heart.
— J.R. Rim
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” This touches on the heart of the argumentum ad populum fallacy. Physical reality does not require belief to sustain it, and belief will not modify the rules of the universe.
— Armin Navabi, Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God
I reach down and grab my cockthe rolling scenery in my mindfar from peaceful
— Wren Verlaine, SPARK
By viewing images we cast onto outer reality as mirror reflections of inner reality, we come to know ourselves.
— Sallie Nichols
Life is but an empty dream
— Ehrich Weiss
Dreaming is beautiful but actions makes it a reality that unfolds its true beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
If you can't be as best as you dreamed of,Least be a good man in reality.
— Bradley B. Dalina
But a fix, some magic cure to his “poor” status, was really only a dream; reality usually took precedence over everything else, especially dreams.
— M.L. Sanford, Auguste and The Condition
Maybe I shouldn’t have told you––about it being electrical.” She put her hand out, touched his arm; she felt guilty, seeing the effect it had on him, the change.“No," Rick said. “I’m glad to know. Or rather––“ He became silent. “I’d prefer to know.
— Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person’s imagination.
— Sunday Adelaja
Reality is just a matter of perception.
— Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 2
The more one understands the world...the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood." Dakpo to Shan
— Eliot Pattison, The Lord of Death