Quotes About Reality

No les acontece a muchos hombres hallar en la realidad, al alcance de su vista, ese mundo que la mayoría no descubre más que en sí mismos, cuando tienen el valor y la paciencia de acordarse.

El defecto de que tú me hubieras curado, si me hubieses querido, era el de no colocar nada por encima del beneficio inmediato, de ser incapaz de dejar la pequeña y mediocre presa de los honorarios por la sombra del poder, porque no hay sombra sin realidad; la misma sombra es una realidad. Pero, ¡bah! Yo no tenía más que el consuelo de «ganar mucho», como el tendero de la esquina.

Throughout those years of war, as I frantically scoured the hinterland for the old manuscripts that the heads of monasteries had secreted in lacquered chests, I witnessed the Americans' imperviousness to the realities of Cambodia. Yet today I do not know what I reproach them for more, their intervention or their withdrawal.

Be vary wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.

Be very wary of people who declare that they're going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.)

Nothing is more difficult than competing with myth

For about a month after my baby was born I bragged to everyone that I had the perfect baby because he never cried. Then I realized those baby monitors have volume control.

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

We thought ourselves kings of the ages. Now we find that all our civilisation has been nothing but a brief, brightly lit nursery, where we have played with paper crowns and wooden sceptres.

To be young is to be powerless, but to have delusions of power. To believe that one can really change things, make the world better and simpler in good and simple ways. To grow old is to realize that nobody is ever good, nothing is ever simple. That truth is cruel at first, but finally comforting.

However, the crowds all the while maintained their mouse-tense hush, their air of urgency. Fear. There was a reek of it everywhere, Mosca realized, in every guarded glance or falsely friendly backslap. A clammy smell, like rotten leaves. And everybody went about their lives in spite of it, because fear was part of their lives.

I do not know," said Dr Quick, "It is a blow to my vanity to consider the possibility that I am nothing but a bundle of thoughts, feelings and memories, given life by somebody else's mind. But then again, so is a book.

Perhaps the world has always been like this, Mosca thought as she pushed her way through the crowd. Like a broken honeypot that looks whole, but just holds together because the shards are resting in place and are glued together with honey. You just need to prod it a bit, and it all starts oozing apart.

He could gaze upon a particular deep shade of green and pick out every nuance of the color. Zeluppian Fern Green, his mind would inform him. Gray, said his soul. Just a shade of gray with a greenish name. His well-trained tongue could pick out every flavor of a sweetmeat. Honey from bees fed only cowslip nectar, his mind would tell him, with cherries marinated for twenty-one years in peach-and-saffron brandy. Ash, said his soul. Ash and dust. Even

if all we're left with is muck and wickedness and no gods, then we'd better face it and get used to it because it's better than a lie.

Perhaps the world has always been like this, Mosca thought as she pushed her way through the crowd. Like a broken honeypot that looks whole, but just holds together because the shards are resting in place and are glued together with honey.

Nunca dejes que la realidad te estropee una buena historia.

Del pasado al futuro sólo hay un paso. Digan lo que digan los maestros de zen, lo que no existe es el presente.

Acepta la vida tal como es, no quieras que sea otra cosa. Y no esperes grandes acontecimientos. Piensa que la existencia cotidiana es tu verdadera escuela; el resto son actividades extraescolares.

Lo que quiero decir es que nunca sabremos nada porque probablemente no haya nada que saber. Vivimos en un mundo de sensaciones y sentimientos. Eso es todo lo que hay. Recuérdalo siempre, Samuel: nunca desprecies tus sensaciones y sentimientos, porque eso es todo lo que posees.

Voljeti ono što jest. Nema druge tajne.«

Los budistas tienen una fórmula para la felicidad que va en sentido contrario: FELICIDAD = REALIDAD – DESEOS

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.