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While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another.
— Sara Sheridan
I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.
— Sara Sheridan
As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too.
— Sara Sheridan
After all, I had been waiting decades for it to come. I wanted to escape this world, but only it could help me.
— Grace Fiorre, The Nothing Spirit: Nothing is Everything
Imagination is reality in one's mind waiting to come out at right time with enough efforts.
— Prerak Trivedi
Let Art be your weapon, and you would never be defeated.
— Bam Zakariya
All truth starts out as a wish; hence, reality is born from fairytale."from—"My Aquarius
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Believe it. The world isn't all fairy tales and pixie dust. You need to grow up and face reality.
— Melody Anne, The Tycoon's Secret
Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.
— Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl
Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense, a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve.
— Dan Brown, Inferno
The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.
— Tim Fargo
Real inspiration are not people, but their stories.
— Amit Kalantri, One Bucket of Tears
Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.
— Hideki Yukawa
I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.
— George Orwell, Why I Write
Someone who begins to develop an interest in the teachings can tend to distance themselves from the reality of material things, as if the teachings were something completely apart from daily life. Often, at the bottom of all this, there is an attitude of giving up and running away from one's own problems, with the illusion that one will be able to find something that will miraculously help one to transcend all that. But the teachings are based on the principle of our actual human condition. We have a physical body with all its various limits: each day we have to eat, work, rest, and so on. This is our reality, and we can't ignore it.
— Namkhai Norbu, Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State
The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure.
— Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam
I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The whole world was one big FOX TV show.
— Blake Nelson, Paranoid Park
And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.
— Shaun Hick
You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).
— Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars
Sand in reality is nothing else than very small stones.
— Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was - wasn't everything in her head real too? What if there was no demonstrable reality? What if there was nothing beyond the mind?
— Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
The hope crashes into reality and people get hurt.
— Matthew Woodring Stover, Caine's Law
...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We may look at the growth of knowledge … as an attempt by our mind to return to union with things as they are in their ordered wholeness…. and if we take this view, our notion of truth is marked out for us. Truth is the approximation of thought to reality … Its measure is the distance thought has travelled … toward that intelligible system … The degree of truth of a particular proposition is to be judged in the first instance by its coherence with experience as a whole, ultimately by its coherence with that further whole, all comprehensive and fully articulated, in which thought can come to rest.
— Brand Blanshard, The Nature Of Thought
Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men out of the stagnating atmosphere of materialism and dead orthodoxy into the region of the ideal. With the Master of Balliol, we believe that 'no English writer has done more to elevate and purify our ideas of life and to make us conscious that the things of the spirit are real, and that in the last resort there is no other reality.
— Hector Carsewell Macpherson, Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series
Theres a process of self doubt when things go wrong. Whether or not its personal or a friend in trouble, looking at ones self isn't always the answer neither is seeking god. Just acception and the will to decide is a human condition, but the circle of choices flux with time. So fight my friend or choose your demise, because after all we are only human.
— Adam Mickley Wood
Dreams can only become reality when they are sought after with the spirit of boldness.
— Ellen J. Barrier
You are much larger than anything you encounter while you sleep. Everything that happens in dream takes place on a small stage in a corner of your mind.
— J. Aleksandr Wootton, The Eighth Square
The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of poetry and in the self-created world of dreams hopes to banish the dark power of reality. The gods enjoy eternal youth, and the search for the means of securing it was one of the occupations of the heroes of mythology and the sages, as it was of real adventurers in the middle ages and more recent times. . . . But the fountain of youth has not been found, and can not be found if it is sought in any particular spot on the earth. Yet it is no fable, no dream-picture; it requires no adept to find it: it streams forth inexhaustible in all living nature.
— Ferdinand Cohn
As an artist, i live in fantasy and flirt with reality. I'm an emotional magician of sorts. I paint my feelings onto the abstract canvas of a waking dream. I suspend my concepts in the ether's of otherworldly realms. This is the way my existence has always been. I am untethered, a traveler between worlds. I sinuously slip in and out of the real and surreal, until, they are one and the same. I do not like being shackled or chained, to the physical plane.
— Jaeda DeWalt
Friendships don't last forever, but make sure you make the most of them before it's gone.
— Crystal
Maybe the world didn’t need witches and wolves, because the world itself did more to steal away the magic than fantasy ever could. It didn’t matter if one was disobedient, foolish, or unlucky, because the worst things just happened.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom
— Jo Nesbø
Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
And when I fall in love,” I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes.
— V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
I feel sorry for people who maintain relationships and friendships detrimental to their mental health. Everyone is guilty of it at one time or another- but the idea is to strive to be your best; right? So, meanwhile why are so many people faking it? Security? Fear of loneliness? Fears of independence? Fears of being self ? Or just the idea that you can make someone change? Regardless of the justifications you give & treat yourself to... , I hope all of you - "new year -new me types" strive for self care , honest and pure friendships and relationships based of love- and not based off the fake realities of your mind. These delusions of what you hope for instead of what's there, where you and your puppet show master focus more on everyone else and less on self. To change the world you must start within. But you must first BE HONEST with yourself. My new year started a few months ago-- and it was the best choice I ever made- and I hope your recreations are progressive and successful in THE NEW YEAR
— Tiffany Luard
However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.
— Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech — alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.I believe in the reality of progress.I —But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
— H.L. Mencken, The Artist: A Drama Without Words
Imagination is the other end of Reality.
— K. Hari Kumar
The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful
— Monica Ali, Brick Lane
I return my attention to the situation at hand and realize Reality—the impatient bitch—has made my decision for me. She does that a lot. You get busy planning your life, then it has the nerve to just go ahead and happen to you before you’re ready. Before you even get the chance to aim yourself right!
— Karen Marie Moning, Iced
When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-
— Stephen King, Bag of Bones
We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.
— Shaun Hick, The Army of Five Men
While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.
— Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives
The supreme truth is that nothing ever is born.
— Gaudapada
Faith and belief are not measured by the size of the miracle but the integrity of our soul.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else.
— Paula Marantz Cohen, What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper
Believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.
— Mark Miller, The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow
We are the masters of our reality.
— Kat Von D., Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love, and Tattooing
For a moment, the cardboard sets come crashing down to reveal that squalling monster, reality, locked up in the confines of its man-made cage. It is a fearsome thing, beautiful, inherent only to itself. Faced with such naked, existential truths, I understand why humans worship flesh-eating monsters and bloodthirsty gods.But only for a moment.
— Nenia Campbell, Tantalized
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
— David Cronenberg
Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before." He got out of bed."It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.""Let me alone," said Mildred. "I didn't do anyt
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Life isn't about what you're waiting for ..It's about what you're living for.
— Abdel Halim
...there were those who might have suggested that reality is a highly untrustworthy concept, something perhaps no more solid than a piece of canvas stretched over an interlacing of cables like the strands of a spiderweb.
— Stephen King, It
Reality is like a fine wine,” he said to me. “It will not appeal to children.
— Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What
In the end, all or nothing will matter.
— Jay Mark D. Saga-ad
If you’re not doing what you want to do. However, you still think about it every day. This means you have not given up. Only you know what action will make it happen and thought is an action. Keep focusing on what you want to do and figure out how to turn your thoughts into reality…
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
No more lies and speeches of delusions out of the reality of our existence
— Mazigh Buzakhar
It’s not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be. In actuality, or in each reality, underneath it all—I mean, behind it—the answer lies in
— Chris Campanioni, Going Down
We own the things that claim that we are theirs.
— Jay Mark D. Saga-ad
From dreams reality is born.
— Sheila Parker
Reality is symbolicof an unseen insanity
— Carl-John X Veraja
To each his own reality.
— Carl-John X Veraja
That is why humans resist life. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggestfear we have
—  our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what wereally are. Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans. We have learned to live our lives tryingto satisfy other people’s demands. We have learned to live by other people’s points of view because ofthe fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.
One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one
— Gayle Forman, Just One Year
We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.
— Anthony de Mello, Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.
— Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel
I guess the sky in real life isn’t actually perfect. Maybe that’s what makes it so perfect.
— Kami Garcia, Beautiful Redemption
May you one day find the place where your dreams and reality collide.
— R.S. Novelle
In order to understand why one chooses to be a Tantric practitioner, there has to be an understanding of cause and effect, cyclic existence, the awareness that the reality that we think we are seeing is not reality as it really truly is. So enlightenment is seeing reality with bare awareness, non-conceptual reality.
— Zeena Schreck
Life without Ethan was something worse than a nightmare.It was real.So real that I refused to believe it.
— Kami Garcia, Beautiful Redemption
...if you project the image you wish the world to see, eventually it will become reality.
— Tera Lynn Childs, Sweet Legacy
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
Cat can have kittens in the oven, girl, but that won’t ever make em muffins.
— Stephen King, Song of Susannah
People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard.
— James Patterson, The Final Warning
...the real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent...
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible
I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those of 'real' life. A novelist is someone who confuses his own life with that of his characters.
— Alain Robbe-Grillet
Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
the real is coherent and probable because it is real, and not real because it is coherent...
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
One absolutely sure way to be fearless is to speak the truth at all time about everything.
— Amit Kalantri
Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.
— E'yen A. Gardner
People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard.~Angel
— James Patterson, The Final Warning
The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'.
— Amit Kalantri
Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.
— Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
If you have a strong stomachread on.
— Amanda Leigh, Holiday Hospital Stay Poetry Collection 2012: Original Poetry
Temporary extreme fear while saying the truth is easy to overcome than the perpetual fear of the unspoken truth.
— Amit Kalantri
Lord, What a terrible shame. You're so attractive!'I know, I want to tell her. It should have happened to someone really ugly. And then it wouldn't have mattered.
— Liz Jensen, The Rapture
It doubtless seems highly paradoxical to assert that Time is unreal, and that all statements which involve its reality are erroneous. Such an assertion involves a far greater departure from the natural position of mankind than is involved in the assertion of the unreality of Space or of the unreality of Matter. So decisive a breach with that natural position is not to be lightly accepted. And yet in all ages the belief in the unreality of time has proved singularly attractive.
— J.M.E. McTaggart, The Unreality of Time
When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that's the real world.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
For every quote, there is one that challenges it.
— R. Alistair
Until I have learned how to express myself as a human, I will not consider speaking as a god.
— Michael Walterich, Gently Down
I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.
— A.B. Shepherd, The Beacon
The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
There is an implicit recognition here that important things in life are not always immediately visible, and can't always be named, or even fully understood. Others still are entirely imaginary -- like a red tree growing suddenly in a room -- although this does not make them any less real.
— Shaun Tan, Lost & Found
You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you're still beautiful, graceful and desirable. We've lived together now for 58 years and I love you more than ever. I once more feel a gnawing emptiness in the hollow of my chest that is only filled when your body is pressed next to mine.
— André Gorz, Letter to D: A Love Story
Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.
— Anthony Liccione
In books there are chapters to separate out the moments, to show that time is going by and things are changing, and sometimes the parts even have titles that are full of promise—'The Meeting', 'Hope', 'Downfall'—like paintings do. But in life there's nothing like that, no titles or signs or warnings, nothing to say 'Beware, danger!' or 'Frequent landslides' or 'Disillusion ahead'. In life you stand all alone in your costume, and too bad if it's in tatters.
— Delphine de Vigan, No and Me
The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic.
— Steve Maraboli
In truth, people know very little about each other. I only know as much about you as I know about myself.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and leave behind this litter of dead, unrecoverable selves is both unbearable and the commonest thing in the world — it happens to everybody. In the morning light one can write breezily, without the slight acceleration of one’s pulse, about what one cannot contemplate in the dark without turning in panic to God. In the dark one truly feels that immense sliding, that turning of the vast earth into darkness and eternal cold, taking with it all the furniture and scenery, and the bright distractions and warm touches, of our lives. Even the barest earthly facts are unbearably heavy, weighted as they are with our personal death. Writing, in making the world light — in codifying, distorting, prettifying, verbalizing it — approaches blasphemy.
— John Updike, Self-Consciousness
First, a bath. I'm feeling soiled. Too much contact with cold reality, I think.
— Kerry Greenwood, Death at Victoria Dock
If there are "Infinite Dimensions" then there would be infinite alternaterealities, and if there are infinite alternate realities we would existin almost all of them that would make all of us omnipresent.And if anyone of those beings was connected with all knowledge in all the realities they would fall under what most call a God..
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
You humans always try to make things too simple, except when you’re trying to make things too complicated. You can never just be with what is.
— Angelo Dirks, Seven Dogs in Heaven
Everything looks uglier close up.
— John Green, Paper Towns
Or maybe I am justoutside enough,being the footstool observing from the corner,that I have a view of reality.
— Thalia Chaltas, Because I Am Furniture
Appreciate her beauty, love her uniqueness and respect her reality.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Even more remote from his way of thinking, even more impossible than any other thought, would have been words such as this: “Is it only I alone who have created this experience, or is it objective reality? Does the Master have the same feelings as I, or would mine amuse him? Are my thoughts new, unique, my own, or have the Master and many before him experienced and thought exactly the same?” No, for him there were no such analyses and differentiations. Everything was reality, was steeped in reality, full of it as bread dough is of yeast.
— Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
Reality is created out of confusion and contradiction, and if you exclude those elements, you're no longer talking about reality. You might think that --by following language and a logic that appears consistent-- you're able to exclude that aspect of reality, but it will always be lying in wait for you, ready to take its revenge.
— Haruki Murakami
Are we not all one flesh? One mind? A sword brings power. Knowledge brings coin. With either, one can make blood reckoned, can earn names. The only thing that differs between a noble man and a working man is that they have now, while the other does not have it yet. Such things can be taken. They are always taken.
— Chris Galford, At Faith's End
With each day, each hour and every moment of life, no matter how small, I realize that I have found a way of bringing me straight to the one person that I would give everything for… to you. I am living in a dream, in a dream I don’t want to awake from.
— Sawm Rad
We tend to forget that everything has an ending, so enjoy it while you can still see it around you.
— Angel Phetheni
Stories are invented as you go along...
— Orson Scott Card
Being interested in doing undone things means you have the wish to have them done. But being powerful and filled with passion tells that you have the will to actualize them!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
There is a leap of faith with any conclusion the mind can conceive.
— H. Mortara
If there are infinite dimensions then there would be infinite alternate realities and if there are infinite alternate realities we would exist in almost all of them that would make all of us omnipresent...
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
My eyes lingered on her naked body for several minutes. Was our relationship what she wanted? Was it satisfying for her? Was it what she dreamed of when she started falling in love with me? Did reality ever fulfill our dreams? Or do dreams just continually set us up for failure and disappointment?
— T.B. Markinson, A Woman Lost
Words are the tools we use to express our reality.
— Steve Maraboli
What ever you think, you can make it real.
— Hamzat haruna Ribah
People withhold their forgiveness, thinking that it makes them badass. But really, the unwillingness to forgive is merely the wishing that things were better. You wish that you had better, you wish that someone else were better so they could have treated you better... it’s you making wishes. And that’s not badass. To forgive is to be able to look at the person and say “I accept that you weren’t any better than what you were”, “I accept what you were you and couldn’t have been what I wished you to be”, “I accept that things were the way they were and weren’t any better.” The ability to forgive is intertwined with the ability to accept the reality of the way things are/ the way a person is or was. You stop wishing things and you just accept. And hope is what says to you: “One day you’ll have what’s better.
— C. JoyBell C.
But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Don't underestimate the power of being underestimated.
— Tim Fargo
Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.
— Hector Berlioz, The Memoirs
When people start liking people, that’s when someone has the ability to get hurt.
— Lauren Barnholdt, Two-Way Street
What you knew in your childhood is true; the Otherworld of magic and enchantment is real, sometimes terribly real - and certainly more real than the factual reality which our culture has built up, brick by brick, to shut out colour and light and prevent us from flying.
— Patrick Harpur, A Complete Guide to the Soul
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
— Nicholas Lobachevsky
The world ultimately is what we say it is.
— David Friedrich Strauss
A real man—real in all the ways that we recognize as real—finds himself suddenly abstracted from the world and deposited in a physical situation which could not possibly exist: sounds have aroma, smells have color and depth, sights have texture, touches have pitch and timbre. There he is informed by a disembodied voice that he has been brought to that place as a champion for his world. He must fight to the death in single combat against a champion from another world. If he is defeated, he will die, and his world—the real world—will be destroyed because it lacks the inner strength to survive.The man refuses to believe that what he is told is true. He asserts that he is either dreaming or hallucinating, and declines to be put in the false position of fighting to the death where no "real" danger exists. He is implacable in his determination to disbelieve his apparent situation, and does not defend himself when he is attacked by the champion of the other 
— Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane
From this we conclude, that, to live in harmony and peace…we must trace a line of distinction between those (assertions) that are capable of verification, and those that are not; (we must) separate by an inviolable barrier the world of fantastical beings from the world of realities.
— Constantin-François Volney, The Ruins of Empires
Now, why did Kitty, who was the falsest thing on earth, who was in tune with every kind of falsity, by merely suffering somehow remind us of reality? Why did her tears reveal to me what I had learned long ago, but had forgotten in my frenzied love, that there is a draft that we must drink or not be fully human? I knew that one must know the truth. I knew quite well that when one is adult one must raise to one's lips the wine of the truth, heedless that it is not sweet like milk, but draws the mouth with its strength, and celebrate communion with reality[.]
— Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Enjoy what you have this moment. Don't wait around for something that might not happen.
— Xena Thornton
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.
— Julian Assange, Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography
Truth and reality are two different things. Truth is nothing more or less than an expression of reality as you perceive it, while reality being something totally independent of, and indifferent to how you express, or even, perceive it. People differ only in their reference to reality; and this difference is not without its own implications. Certain interpretations have more value in certain situations, and vice versa. Any number of opposite propositions may be true simultaneously, but their truth value will ultimately decide their worth. From which angle to look at reality at a certain time, is a wisdom philosophy is not designed to endow. It can only help you refine your perception. In order to choose and change your mode of perception, you perhaps need Will.
— Raheel Farooq
The dumbest thing one could ever do is to hold on to something that is slippery
— Angel Phetheni
The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor.
— Raheel Farooq
When you try hard to get something, but you gain nothing, this is what's called depression.
— Al-Hanouf Halawi
Now I know what the atom looks like.
— Ernest Rutherford
General belief is “There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic".
— Amit Kalantri
They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more than realities.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious.
— Raheel Farooq
You only live once so, lets make a difference people will remember.
— Xena Thornton
Reality is okay if you have a friend that will help you up when it comes around to smack you in the face.
— Xena Thornton
There is light in a world of darkness because there is hope in a world of hatred.
— Xena Thornton
By perceiving the end of those illusive ideas and statuses as real, see yourself as though you have already accomplished what you have had a revelation to do. Then go, make it happen.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it is – you deal with it.
— Dennis Vickers, Between the Shadow and the Soul
Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped
— Alan Sheinwald, Alan Sheinwald is Building a Perfect Home
The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.
— Alan Sheinwald, Alan Sheinwald is Building a Perfect Home
I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined.
— Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination. It is quite understandable why primitive people, who were so much more exposed to the overpowering forces of nature than we are today, should have personified these forces in fear and trembling. But nowadays, when we understand so many natural processes, we have no need for such solutions. I can't for the life of me see how the postulate of an Almighty God helps us in any way. What I do see is that this assumption leads to such unproductive questions as why God allows so much misery and injustice, the exploitation of the poor by the rich and all the other horrors He might have prevented. If religion is still being taught, it is by no means because its ideas still convince us, but simply because some of us want to keep the lower classes quiet. Quiet people are much easier to govern than clamorous and dissatisfied ones. They are also much easier to exploit. Religion is a kind of opium that allows a nation to lull itself into wishful dreams and so forget the injustices that are being perpetrated against the people. Hence the close alliance between those two great political forces, the State and the Church. Both need the illusion that a kindly God rewards—in heaven if not on earth—all those who have not risen up against injustice, who have done their duty quietly and uncomplainingly. That is precisely why the honest assertion that God is a mere product of the human imagination is branded as the worst of all mortal sins.
— Paul A.M. Dirac
In real life, you don't get a reset, and you don't get extra lives, and I got the crap pounded out of me.
— Rachel Caine, Fall of Night
Poor things, she thought - do they have to spend all this energy just to surround me? It seemed pitiful that these automatons should be created and wasted, never knowing more than a minor fragment of the pattern in which they were involved, to learn and follow through insensitively a tiny step in the great dance which was seen close up as the destruction of Natalie, and far off, as the end of the 
— Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman
Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, The Art of Scientific Investigation
Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa. And the most dangerous delusion of all is that there is only one reality.
— Paul Watzlawick, How Real Is Real?
We are to blame if reality does not take the form we desire. Whatever we have not desired with sufficient strength, that we call nonexistent. Desire it, imbrue it with your blood, your sweat, your tears, and it will take on a body. Reality is nothing more than the chimera subjected to our desire and our suffering.
— Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco
Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?
— A.M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven
In your mind you are cheating somebody, but in reality you are cheating yourself.
— Cyc Jouzy
The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.
— Alain de Botton
I might be a very weird lover
—  having you the center of my dreams and reality.
Ali, Son of the Father of the SeekerAli said: 'None may arrive at the Truth until he is able to think that the Path itself may be wrong. This is because those who can only believe that it must be right are not believers, but people who are incapable of thinking otherwise than they already think. Such people are not men at all. Like animals they must follow certain beliefs, and during this time they cannot learn. Because they cannot be called “humanity”, they cannot arrive at the Truth.
— Idries Shah, Thinkers of the East
The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.
— Laren Grey Umphlett
The way individuals live together. The truth of each individual is only the truth of his own narrow perspective. The entirety of mankind and of human qualities is always seen through a prisim, where its colours are broken. Observation is so utterly different from experinnce; there is no hope of fusing their contardictions, as the I and the not-I have been foes from the world's beginning.
— Jakob Wassermann, My First Wife
Interestingly, this speech by Prospero does not contrast the unreality of the stage with the solid, flesh-and-blood existence of real men and women. On the contrary, it seizes on the flimsiness of dramatic characters as a metaphor for the fleeting, fantasy-ridden quality of actual human lives. It is we who are made of dreams, not just such figments of Shakespeare’s imagination as Ariel and Caliban. The cloud-capped towers and gorgeous palaces of this earth are mere stage scenery after all.
— Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature
When imagination changes from hoping to knowing, it makes things real.
— Angelo Dirks, Seven Dogs in Heaven
Every man love to see a world full of women and girls
—  even if it costs him killing every man in the world.
Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality.
— Marty Rubin
Whatever you believe to be true, whether it is true or not; if you believe it, then to you it becomes the truth.
— Stella Payton
Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.
— Don Roff
Words are a powerful aphrodisiac. They have the ability to awaken emotion, to excite the minds and senses. The right words entice, creep and crawl along the skin like the sensuous touch of a skilled lover. THAT my friends, is truly magical indeed...
— Shan O' Connor
The sad truth is,we are all grown ups and most of us arematured.However, not all of us are old enough toaccept that loving someone doesn'tguarantee you that they will love you inreturn.
— Nomthandazo Tsembeni
This was a cruel world she had been born into, all pink and squirming. She'd never wanted to see reality. Now, like the cold, it was impossible to ignore.
— Chris Kurtz, The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A novel of snow and courage
Only a few of us believe in reality of dreams and actuality of love
—  but we all devote ourselves to that uncertainty and hesitation.
The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mount somehow - slow it; steer it to safer footing. Of course. And while she was at it, she ought to defeat the Alend Monarch's army, take care of Master Gilbur and the arch-Imager Vagel, and produce peace on earth. While composing great music with her free hand. Instead of doing all that, however, she concentrated with a pure white intensity that resembled terror on simply staying in the saddle
— Stephen R. Donaldson, The Mirror of Her Dreams
Science and religion both make claims about the fundamental workings of the universe. Although these claims are not a priori incompatible (we could imagine being brought to religious belief through scientific investigation), I will argue that in practice they diverge. If we believe that the methods of science can be used to discriminate between fundamental pictures of reality, we are led to a strictly materialist conception of the universe. While the details of modern cosmology are not a necessary part of this argument, they provide interesting clues as to how an ultimate picture may be constructed.
— Sean Carroll
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
— Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden
Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
A lot of things are inherent in life -change, birth, death, aging, illness, accidents, calamities, and losses of all kinds- but these events don't have to be the cause of ongoing suffering. Yes, these events cause grief and sadness, but grief and sadness pass, like everything else, and are replaced with other experiences. The ego, however, clings to negative thoughts and feelings and, as a result, magnifies, intensifies, and sustains those emotions while the ego overlooks the subtle feelings of joy, gratitude, excitement, adventure, love, and peace that come from Essence. If we dwelt on these positive states as much as we generally dwell on our negative thoughts and painful emotions, our lives would be transformed.
— Gina Lake, What about Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment
Single |sin•gle| (adjective) - Too fabulous to settle.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism
— Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking
You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Always think extra hard before crossing over to a bad side, if you were weak enough to cross over, you may not be strong enough to cross back!
— Victoria Addino
To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
You've come to give me a piece of your mind. You know that phrase is really beautiful. The mind is the most powerful thing in the body. Whatever the mind believes, the body can achieve. So to give someone a piece of it... well thank you. Funny how people are always intent on giving it to the people they dislike when it really should be for the ones they love.
— Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now
You are here to evolve and make your consciousness high.You are here to dance, sing and celebrate life. You are here to help others to make their life happy. We are here not to compete, but to learn, evolve and excel. We are not here to make divisions in the name of prophets and religions. We are here to encompass the world with love and light.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Thoughts Become Things... Choose The Good Ones!
— Mike Dooley
You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.
— Jennifer Crusie, Agnes and the Hitman
i held it up, and tried to channel happy dog thoughts toward Cerberus- Alpo commercials, cute little puppies, fire hydrants.
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
I will always find a way and a way will always find me.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Where There is a willthere is a willto search and discover a better dayWhere a positive heartis all you needto rise beyondand succeedWhere young minds grow and respect each other based on their deedsand not their colorwhen times are dimsay as I say"Where there's a willthere's a way!
— Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew from Concrete
I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.
— Leonard Bernstein, The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
In matters of the heart as well, a certain level of negativity and suspicion is universally recommended. You may try to project a thoroughly positive outlook in order to attract a potential boyfriend, but you are also advised to Google him.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
When you’re comfortable and content with who you are, the voices of others who try and define, control or direct you are not important.
— Rachel Robins, How To Feel Good About Yourself - Boost Your Confidence & Tackle Low Self Esteem. Packed with Self Improvement Techniques, Positive Thinking Tips & Inspirational Quotes
Saying thanks to the world, and acknowledging your own accomplishments, is a great way to feel good and stay positive.
— Rachel Robins, How To Feel Good About Yourself - Boost Your Confidence & Tackle Low Self Esteem. Packed with Self Improvement Techniques, Positive Thinking Tips & Inspirational Quotes
If you ever walk down a path surrounding by negative energy, look for the fork in the path then cross over to the positive side.
— Victoria Addino
Instead of saying, "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues" say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over.
— Horacio Jones
To change the world takes time
—  to change yourself takes courage.
Positive energy is attracted to positive energy.
— Deborah Day
The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.
— Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Optimistic people bring a sense of hope into world. Encouraging people bring a new meaning to life. They help you see past the clouds on a glooming day. They bring sunlight everyday
— Stacey Chillemi, Faith, Courage, Wisdom Strength and Hope: Inspirational Poetry That Comes Straight from the Heart
If practice makes you perfectshouldn't good behavior be addedto the curriculum
— Cornelia "Connie" DeDona, Letters to a Prisoner