Quotes About Reality

Romantic ideas about the way life is lived are often to be found in persons themselves fairly coarse-grained.

The clocks were striking midnight at different places all over the town as I stepped through the door of my college. The rain had cleared. Moonlight gave the grass and towers an air of unreality, as if all would be removed in the morning to make way for another scene.

While I undressed I reflected on the difficulty of believing in the existence of certain human beings, my uncle among them, even in the face of unquestionable evidence—indications sometimes even wanting in the case of persons for some reason more substantial to the mind—that each had dreams and desires like other men.

Has any writer ever told the truth about women?' he had asked. . . . 'Possibly. Nor about men either, if it comes to that.

So often one thinks that individuals and situations cannot be so extraordinary as they seem from outside: only to find that the truth is a thousand times odder.

The General, speaking one felt with authority, always insisted that, if you bring off adequate preservation of your personal myth, nothing much else in life matters. It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

Many people say, Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life. They're paralyzed by the fear that they don't know exactly how to turn their dreams into reality. And as a result, they never make the decisions that could make their lives into the masterpieces they deserve to be. I'm here to tell you that it's not important initially to know how you're going to create a result. What's important is to decide you will find a way, no matter what.

your brain can't tell the difference between something you vividly imagine and something you actually experience.

We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world." —THE BUDDHA

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." —ALBERT EINSTEIN

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life—it is your interpretation of what is happening.

You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows / and has always known / that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival

Man is what be believes." —Anton Chekhov

What makes most people just dreamers versus those who live the dream is that dreamers have never figured out the price of their dreams.

The point is: control is often more of an illusion than a reality.

There's no first place or last place here. Life is not a competition. Often people use money and the acquisition of things to measure where they stand: who's got the nicer house, the fancier car, the summer home in the Hamptons. But the truth is, we can't predict how long we'll live or the state of our health as we age. The reality is, it doesn't matter where we start. It's how we finish that counts.

What we believe to be true, what we believe is possible, becomes what's true, becomes what's possible. This

Somos lo que pensamos. Todo lo que somos surge con nuestros pensamientos. Con nuestros pensamientos, hacemos nuestro mundo. BUDA

Money is certainly one of the ways we can turn the dreams we have into the reality we live.

Lo importante es no dejar de interrogarse. La curiosidad tiene su propia razón de existir. Uno no puede evitar sentirse pasmado cuando se contemplan los misterios de la eternidad, de la vida, de la maravillosa estructura de la realidad. Es suficiente con que uno trate de aprehender un poco de ese misterio cada día. No pierda nunca una santa curiosidad. ALBERT EINSTEIN

The state that you're in at any given moment determines your perceptions of reality and thus your decisions and behavior. In

Here is the reality: most people couldn't stomach another 2008 without selling some or all of their investments.

The reality is, if we are being honest with ourselves, we all make emotional decisions about our investments. We are all emotional creatures, and even the best traders in the world are always fighting the inner fear.

There's something in her that's looking for the basic reality of a given situation.