Quotes About Reality

GIVE UP THE ILLUSION that you deserve a problem-free life.

Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses.

YOUR CURRENT SITUATION may feel like a gigantic mistake to you—something you should have been able to prevent. I urge you not to indulge in obsessing about what you could have done differently, for that is an exercise in unreality: The past cannot be different from what has actually occurred. I want to help you make a new beginning instead, starting right where you are.

am far more Real than the world you see around you.

We're not in Fairyland! We're in Kansas!

Fashion models and financial models are similar. They bear a similar relationship to everyday world. Like supermodels, financial models are idealized representations of the real world, they are not real, they don't quite work the way that the real world works. There is celebrity in both worlds. In the end, there is the same inevitable disappointment" - Satyajit Das, Traders, Guns & Money

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

I never yet touched a fig leaf that didn't turn into a price tag.

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

The standards of judgement must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

Most of us view the world not as it is but as we would like it to be. The preferred world can be seen any evening on television in the succession of programs where the good always wins—that is, until the late evening newscast, when suddenly we are plunged into the world as it is.* Political

Tony Montana I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Života, stejn? jako sn?.

If life wasn't going to be like a Hollywood film, there was only one option: fuck life and rent the film instead.

If you discovered that you were the only person in the world, and everything you see around you was in fact a part of you, dramatised, how would that change what you are doing right now, right this very instant? What would you stop doing? What would you start doing? What would suddenly not matter at all?

One is a world of cold fact and reality; the other is a world of magic and adventure.

Flannery O'Connor—it's right, but it ain't right enough.

Bonhoeffer sketched what would in reality become his own virtue and fate: "But their peace will never be greater than when they encounter

For Jesus the word kingdom meant "God's dream for this world come true.

The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to truth.

The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh.