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But this was the first occasion I had come across someone for whom art was a means of avoiding reality rather than confronting it head on, an idea so strange to me that I didn't fully comprehend it at the time.
— Deirdre Madden, Molly Fox's Birthday: A Novel
When I was in Darkness,I could find my Fullness
— Purushothaman Kollam
Your dreams are desperately counting on you to introduce them to their realities.
Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter
— Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s
Let it rain on some days,Let yourself shiver on some cold nights, So when it's Spring you'll know why it was all worth going through.
— Sanhita Baruah
I'm convinced that everything I do will have a better outcome than the person who failed at it before me, because it’s the only reality I choose to accept.
— Crystal Woods, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propositions of natural science, i.e. something that has nothing to do with philosophy: and then always, when someone else wished to say something metaphysical, to demonstrate to him that he had given no meaning to certain signs in his propositions. This method would be unsatisfying to the other - he would not have the feeling that we were teaching him philosophy - but it would be the only strictly correct method. My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
What saves us all are the deeds of fools as often as the acts of the wise.
— Mark  Lawrence, The Liar's Key
[Earl, on liking someone] Because, honestly, the rational part of me know for a rock-solid fact that I would never, ever get with Madison Hartner. But that was just the rational part of me. There's always a stupid irrational part of you, too, and you can't get rid of it. You can never completely kill off that tiny absurd spark of hope that this girl-against all odds, although she could date any guy at school, not to mention guys at college, and even though you look like the Oatmeal Monster and are a compulsive eater and suffer from constant congestion and say so many stupid things per day that it seems like a Stupid Things company is paying you to do it- this girl might like you.
— Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me
Expectation creates the reality.
— Debasish Mridha
People can't really sympathize with you properly when you've woken them up
— Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
Does it matter whether it was a dream or a reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.
— R. N. Prasher
Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.
— Paul Tillich
Does that have to go in?” Lada asked.“What do you mean?” Wistala said, brought back to the dictation.“The battle. Betrayals. Incompetence, even cowardice. Boats falling, mud everywhere, blood running from balconies, carrion birds poking marrow from bones, dwarves hanging from bridges, burned corpses, but worst of all, no hero whose courage and skill is put to the ultimate test.”“They asked for a history, they shall have my history. If someone else will have the battle take place on a spring-green field with pennants at the lance points and songs sung over the honored dead, let them write it thus. This history is a story of death begetting death, and should end with carrion birds, for they are the only ones who come out the better at the end.
— E.E. Knight, Dragon Avenger
I have no doubt that your acceptance of Christ coincided with some very positive changes in your life. Perhaps you now love other people in a way that you never imagined possible. You may even experience feelings of bliss while praying. I don’t wish to denigrate any of these experiences. I would point out, however, that billions of other human beings, in every time and place, have had similar experiences - but they had them while thinking about Krishna, or Allah, or the Buddha, while making art or music, or while contemplating the beauty of Nature. There is no question that it is possible for people to have profoundly transformative experiences. And there is no question that it is possible for them to misinterpret these experiences, and to further delude themselves about the nature of reality. You are, of course, right to believe that there is more to life than simply understanding the structure and contents of the universe. But this does not make unjustified (and unjustifiable) claims about its structure and contents any more respectable.
— Sam Harris
It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salaries might be better off with low salaries. A politician, or a minister, or a teacher is sure to be working sincerely and selflessly for the good of the people when through and through there is little monetary reward guaranteed. This is how the charlatans are weeded out of the field.
— Criss Jami, Healology
The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.
— Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion
Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of illusion and reality, trees and forests can offer no help.
— R. N. Prasher
...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
A dreamlike reality always looks like a real dream!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I know, I'm not perfect, I'm not too good, I'm an average person in everything but I also know that I'm real. And really that's enough for me and I'm very happy with it. :)
— Waleed Uz Zaman Khan
You know, we queens loathed rain at the beach, small cocks, and reality, I think. In that order.
— Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance
Faith…is a concern of the whole person; it is the most personal concern, and that which determines all others. …it is not something which we can produce by the will to believe, but that by which we are grasped.
— Paul Tillich, Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality
In all humilitylet it be said -there's no godin End Realitybut Onenessunto all is All -Whole's Unity.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
I know you do not understand what I am trying to tell you; I know you do not understand, because it is the thing that goes deepest into my heart, and there are no words as deep down as that. How can I make you know the reality of it? The world has spattered us all over with words, with cant phrases, with sarcasm, and with fulsome flattery. The world has been so officiously eager to explain for us the thing we mean and the worth of the thing that now, when we try to speak, our meaning is veiled, concealed, smothered, by the hideous volubility of facile expression. How can it have any reality for you when you hear only words about it?
— Florence Converse, Diana Victrix
True love is wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone you would sometimes also like to strangle.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the ﬂashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I ﬁnally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.
— Karen Marshall, Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder
But pessimism and reality are usually mistaken for each other
— Anna Banks, Joyride
There is no such thing as magic," she told me. "You can b e l i e v e all you want, but it's never going to do you any good. Nobody flies. We only fall
— Melissa DeCarlo, The Art of Crash Landing
I once believed in faith - that if I patiently waited, something good will happen. But at the end of the chapter, I found myself devastated. Years have gone by and I'm back at chapter one again. I've tried several times already and ended up in the same ending. It was always a different title, same story; different choices made but ending up with the same plot and finale. I grew tired of this never ending maze, wandering endlessly and finally giving up faith.
— Raphael Paolo Augustine Camañag
Everything is fine, nobody is happy...
— Anonymous
Finally I find it, the book, but as I’m pulling it out of the stack I hear a noise coming from my toy room. It sounds like scratching or scraping maybe and my mind instantly goes to the possibility that maybe it’s a monster or a dragon or something else with claws. My hand shakes a little as I stand up and turn back toward the room. When I step into it, I feel the wind hit my cheeks. I shine the light around and notice one of the windows is open. I don’t understand why. I didn’t open it and I don’t think it was open when I came down here. What if it was a monster? I sweep the flashlight around the room at all my toys as I start back toward the corner. Then the light lands on something tall… I hear voices. Ones that don’t sound like they belong to a monster, but just people. But that’s what they end up being. Terrible, horrible monsters.
— Jessica Sorensen, The Destiny of Violet & Luke
When you dream with optimism and trust, it becomes a reality fast.
— Debasish Mridha
When you hate someone, in reality you are hating yourself.
— Debasish Mridha
Expectations create and shape reality.
— Debasish Mridha
I love digging myself into books because the moment I'm drifted from reality, I'm in a different world and I'm a different person.
— Nathalie M. Llanto
When reality and your dreams collide, typically it’s just your alarm clock going off.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called "seeing". Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.
— R. N. Prasher
Am I still writing? Unthinkable not to. In the very darkest night the words were like shiny pebbles. They caught the light of the moon and stars and reflected it back. One word among them that shone especially brightly. Simplicity. I would approach it, stepping softly, regard it from all sides, finally pick it up, enchanted by it, recognize that its enchantment lay in its shine, its pure meaning. Simplicity. To simply be there. Simply keep going. The longer I kept going, the easier it was to see how beautiful, simply beautiful, it is to be here. I would like to write about how this word shines. I'd like to write about the simplest things.
— Milena Michiko Flašar, I Called Him Necktie
We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
Sometimes, you don't get what you want the most... At other times, you're just lucky.
— Sanhita Baruah
Try not to waste your entire life working just to earn a paycheck. Seek to discover what your true passion in life is, and start working on turning it into an empire of your own.
You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys.
— Haruki Murakami
When my father wrote about fate, I think he was writing about the reality that is, when there are so many other realities that could have been.
— Jennifer duBois, A Partial History of Lost Causes
I'm leaning against the bookshelves when it occurs to me that one thing here is real-the books. I reach behind me and let my fingers trail over the rough leather of their antique spines, then pull one free. Nobody here reads them; the books are for decoration. Chosen for the richness of their leather bindings not for the contents of their pages. Nobody will miss one, and I need a dose of reality.
— Amie Kaufman
!!!.. "That" happiness most of us searched for (and we thought it’s about getting a person but it) was never about getting a person, we started perceiving that “person” as our life goal and we thought all we have to do in life is to get this person in any case, when this spell of short term madness of happiness ends we realizes that what we actually needed was only a helpmate towards achieving our life mission...!!!
— Syed Nouman Zaidi
Help those who need it, not who want it.
— Sandip Thapa
When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Why spend a lifetime wishing for things a lot of people already possess in their lives? Your greatness lies in persistently going after your desires.
If you're born a man, be a man. If a woman, be proud of being one. For, you're not the body, mind, this or that. "Ye are gods!" - human.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
To the extent that we are trapped by the overvaluing, idealizing tendency, we are not free fully to celebrate the limited but real goods of creation. Idolatry by definition is not an accurate assessment of creaturely goods, but an overvaluing of them so as to miss the richness of their actual, limited values. If I worship my tennis trophies, my Mondrian, my family tree, my Kawasaki, or my bank account, then I do not really receive those goods for what they actually are - limited, historical, and finite - goods which are vulnerable to being taken away by time and death. When I pretend that a value is something more than it is, ironically I value it less appropriately than it deserves. Biblical psychology invites us to relate ourselves absolutely to the absolute and relatively to the relative.
— Thomas C. Oden, Guilt Free
We’re all monsters, sweetheart. Some of us just hide it better than others.
— Bethany-Kris, Shattered
It's just high school, man. Those guys are just high school guys, and in ten years they're going to be working for people like me. I know that. I just have to make it through two more years.
— Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye
No matter how "normal" people look, living "ordinary" lives, everyone has a story to tell. And may be, just like you, everyone else is a misfit too.
— Sanhita Baruah
Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.
— Anonymous
The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming.
— Adyashanti, The Way of Liberation
Welcome to the real world, Mother Robot, a beautiful and dangerous place. Now you can truly begin to live.
— Tony DiTerlizzi, The Search for WondLa
Fiction is but truth.. tweaked or disguised.
— Syed Arshad, If It's Not Love
Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ­
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Reality depends a great deal upon one believing what he sees—or seeing what he believes. Either way.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Secrets of a Noble Key Keeper
Conchpore is real. It is as real as Malgudi, Brahmpur, Lilliput or Macondo. And also as real as San Francisco, Madurai, Edinburgh, Gaborone or Tokyo. You know that fictional towns exist. You visit them all the time.
— Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.
— Anthony Liccione
A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it. Belief leads to various forms of fundamentalism and shuts down the curiosity and inquiry that are essential to open the way for awakening and what lies beyond awakening. A good spiritual teaching is something that you work with and apply. In doing so, it works on you (often in a hidden way) and helps reveal to you the Truth (and falseness) that lies within you.
— Adyashanti
So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, which will be better polished than earlier ones, but, peremptorily and seizing it by the lapels, "what is truth as such," and with regard to reality, not what things are or what and how is that which is, but for what reason that X which we call Being is in the Universe, and with regard to knowledge we must not ask for its bases and limits—as Plato, Aristotle Descartes, Kant did—but for something which comes before all this: for what reason we concern ourselves with trying to know.
— José Ortega y Gasset, La Idea De Principio En Leibniz Y La Evolución De La Teoría Deductiva
Success is possible to anyone who sets his heart to it. Whatever we dream of can become reality if we put ourselves to work.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
That was your delusion, not my reality.
— Calista Smith, Breaking Down
The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.
— Matthew Arnold
There was this saying that kept on haunting her mind – tears make you seem weak. And she wasn’t weak. It was just that sometimes when she was all alone, it had made everything seemed so much real and convincing.
— Diyar Harraz, One Minute to Midnight
the threat of Jewish competition was taken away, but so were the Jewish customers
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
I have dedicated my life to a doomed struggle against reality and the things that cannot be otherwise
— Plamen Chetelyazov, Flaws of Oblivion
This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a fictive one.
— Reif Larsen, I Am Radar
Angels, fairies, gods, hell-heaven, "mediating" messiahs, demons, spirits etc. - are but your cultural-isms. Free be of these prisons.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment
— Joe Queenan, One for the Books
When all the battles are fought then the biggest battle is, the battle to honour and treasure the hard won victory.
— Newton G Kibiringi
All's a Oneness. There's nothing else.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
You're not a piece of nothing, but the all of everything.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.
— Charles Bukowski
An innocent mind is a rarity. Society corrupts us all, even if only a little.
— Caitlyn Paige
I discovered at an early age that I was - shall we be kind and say different? It's a better, more general word than the other one... I got sick... It was the feeling that the great, deadly pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me - and the great voice of millions chanting, "Shame. Shame. Shame." It's society's way of dealing with someone different.
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed. What I do remember is a feeling I'd had before when I was down here, especially when I was walking this road by myself. It was a sense that reality is thin. I think it is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.
— Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Human history is full of depressing things like colonization, disease, racism, sexism...inventions of things which they had no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semicolon)....And through it all there has always been some truly awful food.
— Matt Haig, The Humans
Spinoza was the supreme rationalist. He saw an endless stream of causality in the world. For him there is no such entity as will or will power. Nothing happens capriciously. Everything is caused by something prior, and the more we devote ourselves to the understanding of this causative network, the more free we become." ... "I'm sure he would have said that you are subject to passions that are driven by inadequate ideas rather than by the ideas that flow from a true quest for understanding the nature of reality." ... "He states explicitly that a passion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a more clear and distinct idea of it--that is, the causative nexus underlying the passion." p.269
— Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem
Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities.
— Jonathan Friesen, Both of Me
Your self-talk creates your reality.
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
The funny thing about games and fictions is that they have a weird way of bleeding into reality. Whatever else it is, the world that humans experience is animated with narratives, rituals, and roles that organize psychological experience, social relations, and our imaginative grasp of the material cosmos. The world, then, is in many ways a webwork of fictions, or, better yet, of stories. The contemporary urge to “gamify” our social and technological interactions is, in this sense, simply an extension of the existing games of subculture, of folklore, even of belief. This is the secret truth of the history of religions: not that religions are “nothing more” than fictions, crafted out of sociobiological need or wielded by evil priests to control ignorant populations, but that human reality possesses an inherently fictional or fantastic dimension whose “game engine” can — and will — be organized along variously visionary, banal, and sinister lines. Part of our obsession with counterfactual genres like sci-fi or fantasy is not that they offer escape from reality — most of these genres are glum or dystopian a lot of the time anyway — but because, in reflecting the “as if” character of the world, they are actually realer than they appear.
— Erik Davis, TechGnosis: Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information
A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
No one is interested in real victims, or real criminals. Not local courts, not their fellow citizens, not publishers, and not readers. Everyone simply refuses to believe them. An imaginary crime is much more convincing; reality is too real. They can only identify with an invented crime, only paper evil can excite them.
— Dubravka Ugrešić, Thank You for Not Reading
To move from here to there, sometimes there is a need to suspend the present realities; they can be a distraction.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Find something to help you accept reality. Because after all, that's where the pain's come from - from reality.Find something good, something magnificent, find you something meaningful to fill that hole that's ate you up on the inside.
— Stevie J. Cole, Jag
It was only possible because it was attained. An Idea isn't feasible until it becomes reality
— Seyi Ayoola
We often misunderstood between having good number of friends and having number of good friends.
— Vijay Dhameliya
Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
— Laurence Overmire
Our life experiences only teaches us but not break us.
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Fiction may amuse us, but reality instills lessons to be imbibed through experience; to 'live' this stark reality called 'life' as a blessing, whereas some foolishly waste it by following fiction and fictitious characters.
— Henrietta Newton Martin
I would almost rather we had died that day than to have found ourselves here, lost somewhere between the dreaming and the coming true.
— Robert Benson
Well, on some level, it’s similar to the psychological phenomenon of helplessness, where the will to try is lost. You get to the point where you just assume that your spontaneous call to a friend will go to voicemail or an assistant, and you decide not to bother.
— Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
Don’t invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up,” she used to warn me.
— Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
Reality is seeing that the peace in a picture is a dream.
— Lee Wen
She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.
— Liezi, Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
What is important is to understand the true boundaries of reality, not the probable boundaries of possible future events. Although boundary conditions operate on the future, they are probabilistic constraints, not absolutely determined fact. We assume that ten minutes hence, the room we are in will still exist. It is a boundary condition that will define the next ten minutes in our space/time coordinate. But we cannot know who will be in the room ten minutes hence; that is free to be determined. One may ask if we can really know that the room will exist at any future moment. This is where induction enters the picture, since in truth we cannot know with certainty. There is no absolutely rigorous way of establishing that. But we can make the inductive leap of faith that has to do with accumulated experience. We project that the existence of the room will remain a boundary condition, but in principle in the next ten minutes there could be an earthquake and this building might not be left standing. However, for that to happen, the boundary condition will have to be radically disrupted in some unexpected and improbable manner. What is so curious is that such a thing could occur.
— Terence McKenna, True Hallucinations
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
— Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer .... What good is your reality then?"" .... I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice .... and I never promised you peace or happiness .... The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie...and a bore, too!
— Joanne Greenberg
Not to understand is profound
—  to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside
Do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can be born the old must perish. This is a dangerous realization, because it tells us that we must eventually part with much of what is familiar to us. And that hurts. But that is part of the script of life. Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.
— Philip K. Dick
Later she came to realise that under one reality there’s always another. And another one under that.
— Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, The Rabbit Back Literature Society
All our emotions are real, but one has to be quite cautious with what supports their reality.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic
There is no time to escape reality.
— Lange Weile
Reality is the manifestation of the inner workings, carried out by the supreme powers. Whatever you think and do right now, either positive or negative is working on your behalf because you are a co-worker of the divine.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Beautiful You
A Coy Aversion...a fluttertoo shyto be seen...
— Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where it resides; it has duration yet no beginning or end. Something emerges, though through no aperture - this refers to the fact that it has reality. It has reality yet there is no place where it resides - this refers to the dimension of space. It has duration but no beginning or end - this refers to the dimension of time. There is life, there is death, there is a coming out, there is a going back in - yet in the coming out and going back its form is never seen. This is called the Heavenly Gate. The Heavenly Gate is nonbeing. The ten thousand things come forth from nonbeing. Being cannot create being out of being; inevitably it must come forth from nonbeing. Nonbeing is absolute nonbeing, and it is here that the sage hides himself.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Isn’t it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?
— Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
In order to live in the reality of your God's given destiny, you must consistently guard your mind against all self-defeating thoughts and beliefs.
God's opinions of you are the only unchangeable realities of your life.
In order to live in the reality of your God's given destiny, you must consistently guard your mind against all self-defeating thoughts.
Stories are epically important to how we view and interact in the world around us. We define ourselves, our abilities and even our goals by the stories we believe and share. These stories become part of our personal view of our world.
— Lyssa Danehy deHart
He gets away with it because he's strong.''This is the story of mankind.''I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.''Yes. But then I read the newspaper.
— Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead
As you focus on something you desire, your intent collapses scalar waves of consciousness into 3D. Your DNA literally becomes your projector of reality.
— Deborah Bravandt, Generation Youtube: Breaking Down Social Media
So your theory would seem to be that lying to yourself is no lie at all because you haven’t deceived any third party. And if you then convince yourself of those lies, you’ll believe them enough to repeat them to other with the genuine conviction that they’re true.” "Something like that,” I conceded uneasily.
— Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
You can sleep in a forest and have a nice dream. But when you wake up, you will have a much better dream: The Magnificent Reality!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless reality. Train positive perception of the surrounding things.
— Alexander Zalan, Petals of Decades
You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
They say what doesn't kill u makes u stronger.. but truth is sometimes it does kill u, it kills a part of u then it makes u stronger.
— Tilicia Haridat
Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the said thought or conception as something fated, inevitable, and foreordained—something bound to happen. Whether by this there is connoted something in the nature of a combination of presentiments, or a great effort of will, or a self-annulment of one's true expectations, and so on, I do not know;
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler
Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets
—  many who are in their graves are in reality alive.
He's not god! He's just the asshole who fucks with us.
— Satoshi Kon, Opus
Who gets to be the judge of reality? If it was deeply felt, believed, spoken about often or altered your life course, then it was real enough. Faith doesn't get the luxury of all those things one hundred percent of the time, but we call that normal behavior based on a gut feeling.” I said. I looked at his wife and she busted out laughing. Her husband was trying to catch invisible butterflies above his head—dementia. My patients teach me the most sobering of truths: Why wreck his smile. If I could see them, I would want to catch them too.
— Shannon L. Alder
The supposed reality of misfiring synapses, chemical imbalances, frontal lobe anomalies and the like - did not sway her desire for escape into an alternate universe - where she could discover fascinating things about her inner world - or where she could hide from the real world.
— Kelly Proudfoot, Delwyn of the Realms
No matter where you go or what you do to distract yourself, reality catches up with you eventually
— Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
It's the fricking reality that destroys plans.
— Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon
I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952
Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest
One must always account for the vagaries of truth.
— Betsy Cornwell, Mechanica
Everyone is good if you see from good side.
— Sushil Singh
Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.
— Gertrude Stein, Picasso
... every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as they merit that exigent name, ideas are never a mere reception of presumed realities, but they are constructions of possibilities; therefore they are pure bits of imagination, or fine ideas of our own...
— José Ortega y Gasset
When faced with unbridled wildness of reality, dinosaurs fall into fevered delusions of grandeur. In fits of madness, they recreate the world in their own overblown image, bull-dozing the wild and replacing it with a wasteland that reflects their own emptiness. Where there was once the incredibly complex diversity of nature, there is now the dead simplicity of asphalt and concrete.
— Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs
There is no corelation between life and death, except that life is the biggest lie we believed, while death; is the most certain truth.
— Husam Wafaei
The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.
— Criss Jami, Healology
There's and entire world outside these bleak pages, one full of SUNRISES and KITTY-CATS and late-night BURRITO RUNS and the horrible, creaking amble of us all towards DEATH. It is to that world that I am afraid I must release you to now.
— David Malki, Wondermark, Vol. 1: Beards of Our Forefathers
Reality is messy, but fairytale is clean
— Madison Caves
But you knoe, she's right. Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.
— Haruki Murakami
One should clearly know that " Every thought that one thinks and every action based on that thought, is taking us either closer to our principal purpose or away from it" Watch out then ....as thoughts become realities!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
Reality wasn't as important as people made it out to be; to Jude it was simply the physical state in which he found himself, an environment he had limited control over.
— Gemma Malley, The Resistance
Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?
— Aravind Adiga, Last Man in Tower
Done and over with ... weeding is a must, it's necessary!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with - to live a more interesting reality than one's daily life.
— Steven Rigolosi
The living world is a dream. The nocturnal dream is reality.
— Rampo Edogawa
When he first said my diagnosis, I couldn't believe it. There must be another PTSD than post-traumatic stress disorder, I thought. I have only heard of war veterans who have served on the front lines and seen the horrors of battle being diagnosed with PTSD. I am a Beverly Hills housewife, not a soldier. I can't have PTSD. Well, I was wrong. Housewives can get PTSD, too, and yours, truly did.
— Taylor Armstrong, Hiding from Reality: My Story of Love, Loss, and Finding the Courage Within
Don't let reality, get in way of your dreams.
— Anthony Liccione
I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs...
— César Aira, How I Became a Nun
Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant coffee and reconstituted orange juice. We buy our vegetables on cardboard trays covered with plastic. But perhaps the most dehumanizing thing of all is that we have allowed the media to call us consumers--ugly. No! I don't want to be a consumer. Anger consumes. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Nothing is pending in the world…nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved…Everything is filled to the brim.
— Carlos Castañeda
Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you. You easily lose yourself in them, become hypnotized into implicitly believing that when you have attached a word to something, you know what it is. The fact is: You don’t know what it is. You have only covered up the mystery with a label. Everything, a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being, is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a. subjective side won't get us very far.
— Niels Bohr
Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.
— Rachel Cusk, Outline
Where does fiction end and reality begin?
— Dean Koontz, False Memory
...the longer one stays in full flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.
— Taite Adams, E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude.
— Michel Faber
The grass is not only greener on the side you water but also on the side you prevent preys from feeding on. Learn to keep out the preys and see your lawn flourish.
— Kemi Sogunle
When love speaks it is about us or we. When ego speaks it is about I or me.
— Kemi Sogunle
Never shut off pain till it eats you up completely. Ensure you find someone you can confide in and trust, share your burdens, cry if you need to by letting it all out. No one is conditioned for pain. We all need to address it and let it go, knowing we cannot change the past but we can make a brighter future out of the lessons learned.
— Kemi Sogunle
If you have to cut corners to get it, without allowing yourself go through the process, you will not be able to keep it.
— Kemi Sogunle
An individual's perception is their reality colored in the shades they desire--not necessarily the color that it is.
— Terry A. O'Neal
Everything is as real as nothing, whatever way the nothing itself is defined.
— Thiruman Archunan
What's really weird is my mom's clothes smell like her. I mean, her perfume, and so all day it's like m mom has been walking right beside me. Which, you have to admit, a pretty freaky feeling.
— Frances O'Roark Dowell, Ten Miles Past Normal
But George knows he can't do that. Because, absurdly, inadequately, in spite of himself, almost, he is a representative of the hope. And the hope is not false. No. It's just that George is like a man trying to sell a real diamond for a nickel, on the street. The diamond is protected from all but the tiniest few, because the great hurrying majority can never stop to dare to believe that it could conceivably be real.
— Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
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, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
a good idea is only good if thereis a well-thought-out plan tomake it a reality.
— Norma Kamali
Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story.
— Shannon L. Alder
Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.
— Ryan Lilly
I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Nowhere is it writ that anthropoid apes should understand reality.
— Terence McKenna
Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all, since she never let herself see it. She had the likeness of a life, because she was all alone in it. She lived in the likeness of a house, with walls and a roof and a door that kept nothing in and nothing out.
— Marilynne Robinson, Lila
Look at yourself, you’re old, too, but still doing your work. This is what we are, Philips. This is what we are.
— Waheed Ibne Musa, Johnny Fracture
The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire and eternal torture, which, to many, seems to be too harsh a punishment. If men really want to fear something, they should be fearing separation from God, the supposedly more comforting alternative to a literal Hell. For separation from the authorship of love, mercy, and goodness is the ultimate torture. If you think a literal Hell sounds too bad, you are very much underestimating the pain of being absolutely, wholly separated from the goodness while exposed to the reality of the holiness of God.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Being in a wheelchair has made everyday things difficult. Things you wouldn't imagine. Like the looks I get at high school basketball games when they tell everyone to stand for the National Anthem.
— Travis J. Dahnke, Write like no one is reading
Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
That’s the trouble with memories: everything seems much more fantastical with a childhood lens to filter out the limitations of reality.
— Brielle A. Marino, The Last Eve
1715Whatever, however anybody leaves you alone and you think its your fault, its wrong, you are not alone because.... God is always with you, its not your fault the person who gone is just not perfect for you..!
— Irfa Rahat
As a sea is full of drops of liquid, I was but one in the ocean of WarMany are swept ruthlessly into the battering, bashing waves, and only few survive to swim to shore
— Jade Kosche
For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
Be careful what you wish for or pray for, because whatever you wish for or pray for, you will have to take care of.
— Lisa Bedrick, Jesus, God and Us
I heard this when I was in the Air Force: “There’s never enough time to do the job right, but always enough time to do it over.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually frame our lives. But the master metaphor of our era does not come from agriculture - it comes from manufacturing. We do not believe that we 'grow' our lives - we believe that we 'make' them. Just listen to how we use the word in everyday speech: we make time, make friends, make meaning, make money, make a living, make love.
— Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
If we look upon the earth as a place where our 'higher selves' have come to learn, to experience, or even to be judged, then the splitting of realities that occurs with the many-worlds interpretation is merely an extension of these functions.
— Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.
— Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Sincerity is nothing to express, it appears over the period. Just try to hold and wait....
— Muhammad Danish Adeel
Tomorrow is like infinity,it doesn't really exist.
— Ali Asad
Pessimism doesn’t change the reality
—  it prolongs the status quo. And it brings everyone down. It’s only ever lose-lose. Optimism and faith coupled with pragmatism change the reality. Self-belief and self-reliance change the reality. Boldness to explore new ideas changes the reality. A vision powered by effort and energy changes the reality.
Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism.
— Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
No matter who you are, everyone has a shadow; a constant darkness that follows them wherever they go…unless where you go is into the darkness itself, of course, because then you have already been consumed.
— S.R. Crawford, No Secrets: Eternity series
…reality catches up with you eventually.
— Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
There’s only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.
— S.R. Crawford
They said we are different. but I Said we are same because we all are busy to blaming others for our sins!
— sid
Like the very quantum particles we study, we must be comfortable allowing our view of the world to exist in superposition.
— Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
The world and humanity were created by God and are therefore divinely inspired and intrinsically holy.
— David R. Hawkins