c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Our consciousness and awareness, which includes our choices as to where we place our focus, alters the paths of our lives, and creates a split in reality, leading to the creation of two or more worlds at any moment in time.
— Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
Keep your head up and your hopes high, friend; anything is possible.
— S.R. Crawford, No Secrets: Eternity series
When God “saves” people in this life, by working through His Spirit to bring them to faith, and by leading them to follow Jesus in discipleship, prayer, holiness, hope and love, such people are designed – it isn’t too strong a word – to be a sign and foretaste of what God wants to do for the entire cosmos. What’s more, such people are not just to be a sign and foretaste of that ultimate “salvation”; they are to be part of the means by which God makes this happen in both the present and the future.
— N.T. Wright
Nice to be born in this universe. Thanks dad and mom.
— Nodas
I won't fuck with you if you can't seem to understand.
— Jessiie Mahadeo
We kept our secrets because we don't want to reveal what we were before
— Syrone Dalawis
The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence - because he couldn't whisper and they didn't want to wake Colin's parents. They succeeded in staying quiet, in part because it felt like the air had been shocked out of him. Paradoxically, he felt as if his getting dumped was the only thing happening on the entire dark and silent planet, and also as if it weren't happening at all. He felt himself drifting away from the one-sided whispered conversation, wondering if maybe everything big and heartbreaking and incomprehensible is a paradox.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
You always do this to people?""Do what?""Get them to empty their guts out just like that.""We do not have much time. We should only talk about what is important.
— Francisco X. Stork, Marcelo in the Real World
Reality is just an interpretation. Some people believe only God really knows what's going on: we mortals just make up our own versions of it.
— Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage
Sun and snow is an Angel’s glow, but storm and rain? That’s a Demon’s bane.
— S.R. Crawford, No Secrets: Eternity series
The western average human lifespan is 2.5 billion seconds (or 77 years). Here are 2 time-dilating perception strategies to enhance one's allocated living time: 1.Make choices. 2.Focus on your best qualities.
— Nodas
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
— Brad Boney, The Nothingness of Ben
When reality hurts, make sure to soar above the dream-stained sky!
— Munia Khan
In our dreams every man and woman are amazingly perfect, but in reality they have imperfections, so accept it without judgement.
— Debasish Mridha
In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and reports to you these facts: (1) there is nothing to do; (2) there is nowhere to go; (3) there is nothing to be; (4) there is no one to know. Without meaning-charged emotions keeping your brain on the straight and narrow, you would lose your balance and fall into an abyss of lucidity. And for a conscious being, lucidity is a cocktail without ingredients, a crystal clear concoction that will leave you hung over with reality. In perfect knowledge there is only perfect nothingness, which is perfectly painful if what you want is meaning in your life.
— Thomas Ligotti
[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal preoccupations so far removed from the reality of his situation that they are forms of madness, but madness all the same.
— Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities.
— Ryan Lilly
Happiness doesn't depend on reality but it depends on perception.
— Debasish Mridha
Reality is neurology, and is not absolute.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
It's always comforting to tell yourself things are going to be alright, because even if a part of you senses that you're lying, it's comforting to shut it out- shut out reality and pretend- because pretending is nice.
— Emma Abdullah, The Blue Box
Cultures produce myths because they satisfy a deep-rooted human need: the need to make sense of life. Myths are appealing because they reduce the complexity of experience, by making things seem simple and absolute; myths define popular realities which are accepted readily, even uncritically.
— Matthew Screech
Fair and unfair are for children
— Michelle Lovric, The Undrowned Child
Is this World a reality or just a Human perceptions?
— Bash
My heart is suffering from reality,so I go to sleep and dream I'm on a fairy tale
— Johncen-k.m.f Vergara
There is no deeper reality. The water at the bottom is the same as the water at the top.
— Marty Rubin
The best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods.
— Edward O. Wilson
Men in general are as much affected by what a thing appears to be as by what it is, indeed they are frequently influenced more by appearances than by reality.
— Niccolò Machiavelli
If it’s reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.
— Peter Stamm, All Days Are Night
A cloud is more real than all my thoughts.
— Marty Rubin
It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call ‘something there,’ more deep and more general than any of the special and particular ‘senses’ by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed. If this were so, we might suppose the senses to waken our attitudes and conduct as they so habitually do, by first exciting this sense of reality; but anything else, any idea, for example, that might similarly excite it, would have that same prerogative of appearing real which objects of sense normally possess.
— William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
Reality is what you look at and what you make of it. All in between is how you are.
— Diana Matoso
When someone dismissively answers “Of course a tree makes a sound if no one’s nearby,” they are merely demonstrating their inability to ponder an event nobody attended. They’re finding it too difficult to take themselves out of the equation. They somehow continue to imagine themselves present when they are absent.
— Robert Lanza
The best dreams are the ones you are awake for.
— Dixie Waters
Reality is how you look at it
— Diana Matoso
I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened. Then why am I so sad?
— Lena Dunham
That’s the thing with reality, he said, you can’t repeat it to order, you can’t correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.
— Peter Stamm, All Days Are Night
Live in your dream and then make it your reality.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is a perceptual reality, not an absolute certainty.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is an inner perception, not a reality.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality.
— Debasish Mridha
And that's my comfort--that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?
— Craig Thompson
When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.
— Marty Rubin
No person wakes up and finds themselves on the world stage. When that happens, it is in the movies.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Reality went out the window the moment we started mediating sensory input through a nervous system. You want to actually perceive the universe directly, without any stupid scribbles or model-building? Become a protozoan.
— Peter Watts, Echopraxia
Your biggest dreams can become reality, not by brute-forcing the end-goal, but breaking it down into smaller, more manageable parts. If your goal takes years, breaking it down into months and days will let you improve your lot little bits at a time.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
What do I think? I think it makes no difference what I think.
— Marty Rubin
You might plan how you sleep but you can't plan how you wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planner, he who plans how to wake up is a Dreamer.
— Amen Muffler
He lived decades ago,she lives at the moment.A very saddening reality for her.
— S G
Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.
— Philip K. Dick
Tell me something wonderful," he said to Dane. "Tell me that we are going to die dreamfully and loved in our sleep.""You're always writing one of your plays on the phone," said Dane."I said, something wonderful. Say something about springtime.""It is sloppy and wet. It is a beast from the sea.""Ah," said Harry.
— Lorrie Moore, Like Life
Reality is reality when it exists inside and outside the mind.
— Joey Lawsin, Creation by Law
Putting heart & soul & contributing to what you are good at... is only for that movement. All is forgotten & people sitting far a distance knowingly wouldn't accept the same. Ultimately we make no difference & ground zero reality is never taken into account.
— Stephen Manoharan
Some churches, sects, cults, or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.
— Eckhart Tolle
The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
When he placed a candle on the shelf across the room from him and lit its wick, he came to realize that in fact everything he saw was a flat surface, like a screen – that in fact dimension was an illusion. Everything was a flat surface and the pinpoints of light, whether from a candle on the shelf or a gaslamp above the street, were punctures in that surface – gashes made by somebody behind the screen. He realized then that beyond everything he saw there was an entire realm of blazing sunfire, and that colors were only the silhouettes of people in that realm – walking, eating, dancing, doing whatever they were doing behind the screen. “It astonished Adolphe that everyone failed to realize they were just figures on a tapestry, the shadows of something else. He was therefore amused by the conceit of women, for instance, who who admired the creamy color of their skin when in fact it was only the haze of some other woman behind the vast screen staring into a mirror. Adolphe could explain all of this to himself but he could not explain Janine: Janine wasn't the same as the others. Janine was like their mother; and Adolphe decided Lulu was from this place beyond the surface, and she had, perhaps when she was a little girl, slipped through. “Adolphe wondered why Lulu hadn't told them about this, and then realized she probably would when she thought they were old enough to understand it. He could see it wasn't something one would want to tell a child too soon.
— Steve Erickson
Harsh reality is always better than false hope.
— Downton Abbey
Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple
— Amy Zhang
You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.
— Ian Thomas Curtis
Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it.
— Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you.
— Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The only time I want someone's opinion is when I ask for it. Reason why I don't ask for anyone's opinion nowadays is because they are too afraid, they always cover the truth with a lie, which is something I hate tremendously. When I ask for your opinion; I want full brutal honesty, face on, outright! Not a lot of people can do that, which is sad, very sad indeed...
— Nisa Jolly
There is nothing wrong with dreaming, but there is everything wrong with dreaming without any intention to make the dream a reality.
— Unarine Ramaru
There are two types of women— the type that makes a man feel like he is the best and the type that makes a man feel like becoming a better man. And then I suppose it is all up to the man and what he wants in life— whether he wants to go through life feeling like he is the best or if he wants to go through life becoming better and better. In reality, we are all at our worst when we have ceased the process of become better and better.
— C. JoyBell C.
Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.
— Carla H. Krueger, The Social Worker
But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.
— Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Imagination should be used, not to escape reality, but to create it.
— Collin Wilson
No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.
— Carla H. Krueger, The Social Worker
The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.
— John duover, Rites
I didn't know who I was any longer, so I just was.
— John duover, Rites
I think: you deserve to be what you are if you could bare to get that way. You must have seen it coming. And now there's nothing for you here. No one will protect you, and people won't see any reason not to do you harm.
— Martin Amis
Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.
— Gao Xingjian
Reality is a complex phenomenon, filled with dimensions, not the least of which are two that Christians affirm and understand: the physical and the spiritual. We are invited by Cervantes to enter into Don Quixote's imaginary world and reflect on these players. We are to ignore no points of view: neither the idealism of Don Quixote nor the realism/literalism of Sancho Panza. The point that comes across is this: we must not have a reductionist attitude toward reality.
— RT Llizo
You can change someone by your actions, not by your words
— sid
It is what it is.
— Almost everyone in my life.
It was all fine until the girls started drinking. (Everything is always fine up until that point.)
— John duover, Rites
We were not actually famous, I have to add. People were just drunk.
— John duover, Rites
If you have to push yourself to do it, should you be doing it in the first place? That was a question I never dared to asked myself.
— John duover, Rites
The possibility of making an error and coming back to try again is real when you have not fully prepared.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
What you think about the most drives your reality
—  control your thoughts to manage your reality.
THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR; HE DESERVES NOT TO BE PHOTOSHOPPED. HE IS HUMAN, AND HE HAS BLEMISHES. HERE HE STANDS, VISIBLE. HE SEES YOU ALL, COUNTLESS INVISIBLE OTHERS LIKE HIM. THIS BODY IS ACCEPTABLE — PUBESCENT, AWKWARD, MARRED. YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE INVISIBLE. WE ARE ALL GOOD ENOUGH. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH OUR BODIES.
— Agnostic Zetetic
Nothing seems crazy when you're used to it.
— Sarah Silverman
Those yellow eyes had seen the thing Ruby hid, even from herself. And when two people see a thing, for better or worse, it becomes real.
— Cynthia Bond, Ruby
Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.
— Gene Wolfe
Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.
— Agnostic Zetetic
He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors.He felt as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts.He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
I knew it wouldn't last, that the reality would come snaking back in, but for a moment I saw it, the futility of trying to mold love into an expected shape. The foolishness of whining when it didn't fit.
— Regina Sirois, On Little Wings
What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'.
— Agnostic Zetetic
Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.
— Geoffrey Wood, Leaper: The Misadventures of a Not-Necessarily-Super Hero
Nothing we do makes us real. That which is real makes us do.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
This wasn't how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.
— Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life
Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only Silence. Indifference.
— Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
It's all talk til it's all real walk.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
We believe that it is the job of each of us to step outside of ourselves, look beyond the shadows, and seek reality. If we hope to present an authentic self to the world, it is critical that we understand what is real and true about ourselves. So how do we begin to see our companies, our brands, our products, or ourselves as we really are ? For us, the best way to start is to stop watching shadows and start facing reality.
— Tom Hayes
I never was very good at acting. I never was very good at playing the role. Because the true pretending can only come off in our genuine awareness of the real. Only those of us with the most secure grasp on the real can pretend
—  can really be good at the performance. And of course I didn't know what was real
There are people you're glad to have them in your life, and there are people, well they're only there, nothing more nothing less.
— Oussama Bounsir
Spirit means Breath and without one or the other there is no life.
— Stacy Snapp Killian aka StacyK
For all the pain I saw at Paterson, it is nothing compared to the pain that people inflict upon each other in the real world. All I can think of now is that it is not right for me to be unaware of that pain, including the pain that I inflict on others. Only how is it possible to live without being either numb to it or overwhelmed by it?
— Francisco X. Stork, Marcelo in the Real World
Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same.
— Marty Rubin
The volume of your muscles doesn't make you a good husband. The way you treat her does.
— Amen Muffler
The physical world exists, but that’s only the paint and canvas; that’s only the instrument we use to make music; that’s only the stage where the play is performed.
— Dennis Vickers, Mikawadizi Storms
Believe me...Nothing is bad or wrong , just prove it as right
— Alpesh Vasan
I'm A Speaker, Your A Listener. 
— Famous Pedro
Believe me...Nothing is bad, just prove it as right
— Alpesh Vasan
Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.
— Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
Among the books there were also some containing bombast. They didn't try to portray Nature as it is within and outside of man; rather, they tried to make it more beautiful, seeking to elicit certain effects. I turned away from them. If reality isn't sacred to them, how are they capable of creating something more beautiful than God's Creation?
— Adalbert Stifter, Indian Summer
The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.
— Marcelo Gleiser, The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
I know, I know: it can be frustrating as hell. But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery enough for a preschooler to think he understands it, the little tyke’s liable to grab a microwave scalpel and start cutting when no one’s looking.
— Peter Watts, Echopraxia
Self-doubt imprisons those that never overcome it.
— Obiora Embry
Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.
— Stefan Molyneux
Besides stage magic props and settings, ritually abusing groups use technology, such as that described by Katz and Fotheringham. Military/political groups have the most sophisticated technologies, and much training or programming is now done with virtual reality equipment. Movies and holograms are used to deceive a child into believing in things that are unreal. When a client says to you “I don't know if it's real; how can it be real?” remember that there are several options, not just two: (1) It happened just as s/he remembers; (2) it did not happen at all; (3) something happened, but due to technology and/or trickery it was not what s/he thinks it was; (4) the thought that the memory must be unreal is itself a program, as described in Chapter Twelve, “Maybe I made it up."p55
— Alison Miller, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
No two person, ever read the same book.
— Edmund Wilson
The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more. ... George S. Patton
— George S. Patton Jr.
...atheism leaves no room for excuses...
— Travis Culliton
Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious.
— Travis Culliton, Why I Love My Prozac: The Ideologies of an Ordinary Family Man
Whenever we decide to create a greater degree of change in our lives we need to start doing things differently. Any external change only reflects the inner transformation. Hence whenever we decide to change our lives, it does not happen through manipulation of the external reality. Any external change is a pure reflection of the inner change. We must change our perceptions, beliefs, feelings, thoughts, the way we talk and express ourselves, in order to see a significant change in our realities. It is all it takes.
— Raphael Zernoff
Faith is stronger than so-called reality.
— Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers, Volume Two
Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.
— Travis Culliton, Why I Love My Prozac: The Ideologies of an Ordinary Family Man
god is similar to the relation of the water of ocean to the waves of the ocean the sole Reality of the waves is the Water.
— Sushil Singh, System dynamics: a practical approach for managerial problems
Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented.Reality needs none of the above.
— Manoj Vaz
Part ways with your perception of reality, allow the unknown and your curiosity muster into a visual you've never allowed yourself to see.
— Elizabeth Lomeli
At what point do you no longer need other people to support the decisions you’ve made about your own reality?
— Scott Ginsberg
We all are beautiful, let's not pretend to be ugly.
— Indrani sarkar
There is no truth.There is only perceptionand perception is reality!
— Manoj Vaz
Only a starving man asks bread from a begger
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
No opionions, just strongly held convictions.
— Anonymous
One cannot live on dreams, but neither can one live without them.
— H.I. Defaz
Reality is but several levels of consciousness that can be accepted or dismissed depending on what one perceives.
— Lauren Lola, A Moment's Worth
Even if you time travel your past, it can't be changed, likewise you can't possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
Reality is a life sentence.
— Carl-John X Veraja
Life as we know it is our perception of reality.
— Benjamin A. McKinney
When we understand who we are, and how our realities work, we can choose more consciously to shape our lives in an optimal way. Knowledge of oneself is the very key to a happy life. Happiness is not something outside of our own consciousness that needs to be earned, and achieved. It is a choice that needs to be supported by positive actions. It is not enough to say that we want to be happy. Our desire of happiness, love and peace, needs to be supported by our state of being.
— Raphael Zernoff
When we choose to operate on the frequency of compassion and kindness, we create, and reinforce our own realities, as filled with compassion and kindness.
— Raphael Zernoff
There's the parent you want and the parent you have.
— Karen Harrington, Sure Signs of Crazy
Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.
— Álvaro de Campos
It’s stupid, but it’s human, and that’s how it is.
— Álvaro de Campos
To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better.
— Warren Ellis
After four thousand years we can’t even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer.
— Peter Watts, Blindsight
Life is not what happens to us
—  it is what we perceive has happened to us.
If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, ‘You’re out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?’ But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.
— Edward Hirsch
Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?
— Blue Balliett, Chasing Vermeer
I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother's death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her back. All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her. There was an instability in it, a sickness. I was seeing things that weren't there. I was only one step away from some trailer park loner stalking a girl he'd spotted in the mall. For the truth of it was: Pippa and I saw each other maybe twice a year; we e-mailed and texted, though with no great regularity; when she was in town we loaned each other books and went to the movies; we were friends; nothing more. My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality. Was groundless, hopeless, unrequited obsession any way to waste the rest of my life?
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence means there’s always something else, and so everything has limits. Why is it so hard to conceive that a thing is a thing, and that it isn’t always being some other thing that’s beyond it?”At that moment I felt in my bones not that I was talking to a man, but to another universe. I tried one last time, from another angle, which I felt compelled to consider legitimate.“Look, Caeiro... think about numbers... Where do they end? Take any number — say 34. Past it we have 35, 36, 37, 38 — there can be no end to it. There is no number so big that there is no number larger...““But that’s just numbers,” protested my master Caeiro.And then, looking at me out of his formidable, childlike eyes:“What is 34 in Reality, anyway?
— Álvaro de Campos
He saw two stars collapse against one another and a nova form; it flared up and then, as he watched, it began to die out. He saw it turn from a furiously blazing ring into a dim core of dead iron and then he saw it cool into darkness. More stars cooled with it; he saw the force of entropy, the method of the Destroyer of Forms, retract the stars into dull reddish coals and then into dust-like silence. A shroud of thermal energy hung uniformly over the world,over this strange and little world for which he had no love or use.It's dying, he realized. The universe. The thermal haze spread on and on until it became only a disturbance, nothing more; the sky glowed weakly with it and then flickered. Even the uniform thermal disbursement was expiring. How strange and goddamn awful, he thought. He got to his feet, moved a step toward the door.And there, on his feet, he died.They found him an hour later. Seth Morley stood with his wife at the far end of the knot of people jammed into the small room and said to himself, "to keep him from helping with the prayer". "The same force that shut down the transmitter," Ignatz Thugg said. "They knew; they knew if he phrased the prayer it would go through. Even without the relay." He looked gray and frightened. All of them did, Seth Morley noticed. Their faces, in the light of the room, had a leaden, stone-like cast. Like, he thought, thousand-year-old idols.Time, he thought, is shutting down around us. It is as if the future is gone, for all of us.
— Philip K. Dick, A Maze of Death
we live in a world where singles are more sexual active than couples
— Mohlalefi j motsima
Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.
— Philip K. Dick, VALIS
Your imagination s a wonderland full of realities.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She knew that sex was a means of getting ahead and saw nothing wrong in exploiting male weaknesses for her own purposes.
— Alice  Walsh, A Poker Game of Love
...if you think the worst you'll get the worst, but if you think the best...""and then everything will blow up in your face anyway. Don't you get the punchline yet? Its the great cosmic practical joke: Knock knock, who's there? Big kick in the Ass.
— Brad Meltzer, The Millionaires
Your imagination is a wonderland full of realities.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry — it’s seeing. These materialists are blind. You told me they say space is infinite. Where do they see that in space?”And I, disconcerted: “But don’t you think of space as infinite? Can’t you conceive of space as infinite?”“I don’t conceive of anything as being infinite. How could I conceive of anything as being infinite?”“But, man,” I said, “Imagine space. Beyond that space is more space, and beyond that more, and then more, and more... It never ends...““Why?” asked my master Caeiro.
— Álvaro de Campos
Dreams can either die young or mature to become realities depending on how they are handled!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.
— Álvaro de Campos
and the idea of nothingness — the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling — has, in my dear master’s work and in my memories of him, something as high and luminous as sunlight upon snowy, unscalable peaks.
— Álvaro de Campos
You are one and only creator of your reality. Even when you might think there is some external force out there creating it for you, it is just you.
— Raphael Zernoff
Beautiful face doesn't makes your heart beautiful,But a beautiful heart always projects you as a beautiful person.
— Shashank Rayal
in exceptional circumstances — exceptional in that all circumstances in life are exceptional, especially those which are nothing in themselves and come to be everything in their results.
— Álvaro de Campos
It wasn’t him speaking. It was panic, anger, fear, and confusion. But how could he show it on the outside? Men are supposed to be fearless.
— Tomasz Chrusciel, Illusive Intrusion
Anything you imagine (inner world)will materialize into your life (outer world). It's speed of materializing is determined by how much feeling and trust you give it, and how well you are able to recognize when it appears. Awareness and Creation are inseparable.
— Franklin Gillette
Created visions of experiencing unreality.
— VicDo
If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn't make it so. Words and thoughts don’t change anything. Language and reality are kept strictly apart — reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn't care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn't. You deal with it, and you get on with your life.
— Lev Grossman, The Magicians
Become the real you
—  only then will you be happy.
I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
If you can't be real and firm with others about who you are, you will be doomed to a phony, plastic bullshit existence, where you only live for others.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Dominant negativity cheats reality of its mutual positives.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them. P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality.
— Paulo Freire
The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even oblivion is a sweet dream. You understand why, of course. Why this peculiar threat. These brooding psyches, all the busy minds everywhere. I hear them buzzing like flies in the blackness. I see them as glow worms flitting in the blackness. They are struggling, straining every second to keep the sky above them, to keep the sun in the sky, to keep the dead in the earth-to keep all things, so to speak, where they belong. What an undertaking! What a crushing task! Is it any wonder that they are all tempted by a universal vice, that in some dark street of the mind a single voice whispers to one and all, softly hissing, and says: 'Lay down your burden.' Then thoughts begin to drift, a mystical magnetism pulls them this way and that, faces start to change, shadows speak... sooner or later the sky comes down, melting like wax. But as you know, everything has not yet been lost: absolute terror has proved its security against this fate. Is it any wonder that these beings carry on the struggle at whatever cost?
— Thomas Ligotti, Grimscribe: His Lives and Works
Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
By trying to export myself into a place that didn't fully exist I asked works of art to bear my expectation that they could be better than life, that they could redeem life. In fact, I believe they are, and do. My life is dedicated to that belief. But still, I asked too much of them: I asked them also to be both safer than life and fuller, a better family. That they couldn't give. At the depths I'd plumb them, so many perfectly sufficient works of art would become thin, anemic. I sucked the juice out of what I loved until I found myself in a desert, sucking rocks for water.
— Jonathan Lethem, The Disappointment Artist
People are living books. The real library of life is community.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The world we create in our minds shapes the ultimate reality where we live
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
When we choose to engage reality as the best each moment can be, we are shaping more positive experiences for others.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Experiential reality is a pure reflection of your own state of being. You see what you believe. It is that simple.
— Raphael Zernoff, Being Yourself, Riding the Wave of Change
Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and most people are almost entirely composed of delusion. They're only allowed as much reality as serves the masters. But they're not allowed any reality which disturbs their masters...
— Stefan Molyneux
Your attitudes are slowly shaping you at all times and calling your deepest truths to the surface of your reality.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The supreme hallmark of reality is balance.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
That thing over there was more there than it’s there!Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesn’t exist.But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can be,And the rest are the dreams men have,The myopia of someone who doesn’t look very much,
— Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Perception meets you at the intersection of your beliefs and reality.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality
—  narrowly or completely.
Most so-called success in the world is slavery.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Life is calling you. The other life. The analogue life. The real. Nature is calling you. And people too. Wondrous royal souls are waiting to meet, appreciate and experience you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you can honor yourself and be real about your discomfort and pain, then your happiness will be just as real.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your perspectives change your realities.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.
— Shannon L. Alder
Real spirituality is about getting the bullshit out of your life and getting real.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Dream big!But not so big that it becomes a mess, and you may never reach reality.
— Hasil Paudyal
No one is as simple as they may seem to be.
— Lik Hock Yap
Either nobody's perfect,or everyone is.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
When you know the inside stories, no matter how good looks the cover, you just cannot appreciate it...
— Sanhita Baruah
Don’t let “reality” make you lose faith in God and gain faith in Man. Don’t put your Joy in man because when man leaves, there goes your Joy. The world didn’t give you your joy and the world can’t take it away. Your value isn’t in the hands of people and your worth was determined when you got here. You were born Gorgeous, but the world will try to convince you otherwise. You’re the daughter of the Kings of Kings and your worth extends beyond the clouds. You’re a product of LOVE.
— Enitan O. Bereola II, Gentlewoman: Etiquette for a Lady, from a Gentleman
...I could never explain how the image and the reality merge, and how they somehow extend and beautify each other.
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
The question isn't whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Gen-Ys are delusional; Most people are not special—otherwise “special” wouldn’t mean anything. Even right now, most of Gen-Ys reading this are thinking, “Good point. But I actually am one of the few special ones”—and this is the problem.
— Tim Urban
When we come face-to-face with our fears we are really confronting ourselves.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Illusion close to reality was your love, you certainly are quintessential with your licks and promises.
— Na
Soon, nobody was leaving their cubicles to talk anymore, and we were either e-mailing each other random thoughts or scheduling meetings, or speaking over an instant message chat.
— Christopher Herz, Pharmacology
We refuse to acknowledge something that is blatantly obvious because either we are closed or we don't know how to face it.
— Santosh Sharma, Dissolve the Box
I function best when dysfunctional...
— Guy R Vestal
Dreams do come true for those who dare to believe in themselves.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Don't be too realistic , It will make you an Idiot .
— Unknown Phylosopher
This is reality, back home is routine.
— George Ikilikjan
You're going to have dreams, but it's not all dreams are meant to come true
— Kayla Davis
Who you are is shaping your so-called reality. When you change — the world changes with you.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
VIRTUALITY ACTUALITYClassrooms in schools will give way to classes in rooms at homeKamil Ali
— Kamil Ali, The Initiates
Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they are on Chapter five. Maybe, it is just enough to meet at the crossroads in life and agree to take separate paths, then with a cheshire grin you both look back and shout, “Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.
— Shannon L. Alder
What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
I found him between a reality and a nightmare.
— Shannon A. Thompson, Take Me Tomorrow
The truth is we're all dying, the lie is we're all living.
— Anthony Liccione
God is, in truth, the whole universe: what was, what is and what beyond shall ever be. He is the God of life immortal and of all life that lives by food. His hands and feet are everywhere. He has heads and mouths everywhere. He sees all, He hears all. He is in all, and He Is.
— Anonymous, The Upanishads: Translations from the Sanskrit
In my reality all the mosquitoes are vampires and all fireflies are dragons.
— Munia Khan
Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.
— Gabriel Chevallier, Fear: A Novel of World War I
I think more people would stay active in church, if they didn't get so offended by the actions of members. Sometimes, you have to view places of worship as free mental health clinics, in order to deal with the piety or hypocrisy. Parishioners are a wounded souls in various stages of healing, who are being treated by angels, with credentials from the University of Hard Knocks. Some take their therapy seriously and try to practice what they learned. Yet, others down the sacrament like a healing dose of Prozac, with no other effort required. When you keep this in mind, you won't feel so annoyed by the personalities you encounter.
— Shannon L. Alder
I cry looking at our reality, through slave eyes. I bet they would say our generation has crossed the line.
— Delano Johnson, My Lifes Lyrics Encrypted: Hate Me or Love Me (Life Series) [Kindle Edition]
Romance is a veiled reality, while marriage is the unveiling of reality!
— Dr. Vivencio Ballano
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awake, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Reality is only as true as it is perceived. Reality does not change. How it is perceived does.
— Murad S. Shah
What is meant by 'reality'? It would seem something very erratic, very undependable-now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now in a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying. It overwhelms one walking home beneath the stars and makes the silent world more real than the world of speech-and then there it is again in an omnibus in the uproar of Picadilly.
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Don't Give Up On Your Dreams,One Day They Will Become Reality And One Day Might Be Today.
— Godfrey Orateng
Wishful thinking does wonders for a wishful mind; but in the end, reality always has the final say.
— Steve Maraboli
It almost doesn’t matter what is real or unreal. It really matters what we choose to believe.
— Judy Frankel
Beliefs will nourish or poison depending on their compatibility with reality.
— Steve Maraboli
Your action plan is what you use to turn your dream into reality.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
The cop looks annoyed, like we're giving him a headache. I want to explain everything to him that its really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.
— johnathon trooper
We fall in love and let our minds fall apart..We let ourselves fall, and keep falling..Our minds are caught by one another, mixed up in a random puzzle, piece by piece put together into a different reality.
— M. Cochet M., LITTLE BLACK PIECES OF DYNAMITE INSIDE MY SKULL
The simple law of the universe is that you create your own reality
— Julian Pencilliah
Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person can’t accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability.
— Dee Dee Artner
Don’t ever let your spouse or partner blame an outside person or persons for the ruin of your relationship or their past relationships. If two people are committed to one another then no one can change that.
— Shannon L. Alder
...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the same for all living beings. Reality is not a unique and homogeneous thing; it is immensely diversified, having as many different schemes and patterns as there are different organisms. Every organism is, so to speak, a monadic being. It has a world of its own because it has an experience of its own. The phenomena that we find in the life of a certain biological species are not transferable to any other species. The experiences - and therefore the realities - of two different organisms are incommensurable with one another. In the world of a fly, says Uexkull, we find only "fly things"; in the world of a sea urchin we find only "sea urchin things.
— Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture
My daddy saidthat the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, the feeling just never goes away.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
The universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The universe is simply responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting.
— Abraham Hicks