Quotes About Reality

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn't true.

The unlocatable location of things thought about

We are thus conscious less of the time than we think, because we cannot be conscious of when we are not conscious.

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world…concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers of perception of the world about us and our understanding of it, and literally create new objects.

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

I prefer true over happy now.

Are there books about us or something?" This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.

We could all drive ourselves mad thinking about what could have been. But life happens the way it happens, and there's no point wishing the past was any different. It will always be what it was, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it.

I needed to understand that maybe sometimes we go through life seeing only what we want to see.

Real life isn't a dream. You have to keep your eyes open. Ears too.

I realized in that moment that I was going to have to find a way to accept how my life had played out and let go of the frustration and regret about not meeting Anton. This was my reality going forward. What good could come from grappling forever with "could have beens"? Every life was full of "could have beens." The best we could do was make the most of what was and what had been.

This was my reality going forward. What good could come from grappling forever with "could have beens"? Every life was full of "could have beens." The best we could do was make the most of what was and what had been.

and she would always love him, but deep down, they had nothing in common. She had to be honest.

Everything's perfect." I want to kick myself for using that word, because nothing's ever perfect.

It was difficult to believe that twenty-four hours ago, my life had seemed almost perfect. I had been in love with an amazing man, and I had thought I was about to become engaged—that we would start a family together, and I'd be happy at last. But maybe I wasn't meant to be happy. Or to be a mother. Maybe the universe was just teasing me, letting me float briefly up to the clouds to enjoy the view from there, only to slam me back down to earth and rub my face in the dirt.

But we can't change the past. Imagining what might have been is a pointless exercise. That much, I knew. Rationally, at least. Emotionally, it was another issue altogether,

I don't sing the way I used to, so I'm doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn't expect that.

Marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

Yeah, I hear the truth. But this is my truth.

What you see, isn't always what you get

Do what, Kim? Lead a normal life? Too late. Way too late.

That's why they call it a dream, Tone. Because it'll never be a reality.

Fox wants too much. Sometimes in the rush of hyper-speed he dreams impossible dreams, dreams that cannot be. The difficult thing, he has discovered, is not just knowing how to dream but knowing what to dream. And the most difficult thing of all is when you find the answer to both. Then you start to believe in your dreams--the impossible dreams that can't come true.