Quotes About Reality

Igual que en el momento de venir al mundo, al morir tenemos miedo de lo desconocido. Pero el miedo es algo interior que no tiene nada que ver con la realidad. Morir es como nacer: sólo un cambio —había dicho Clara.

Por desgracia el garrote es lo único que funciona en estos países. No estamos en Europa. Aquí lo que se necesita es un gobierno fuerte, un patrón fuerte. Sería muy lindo que fuéramos todos iguales, pero no lo somos.

Se creó un aparente milagro económico a un gran costo social

un mocoso drogado los arruinara, aunque en realidad éste no

Deseaba ser como Alma y vivir en una realidad manejable, donde los problemas tenían causa, efecto y solución, donde no existían seres terroríficos agazapados en los sueños ni enemigos lujuriosos espiando en cada esquina.

Después de la elección, a todo el mundo le cambio la vida y los que pensaron que podían seguir como siempre, muy pronto se dieron cuenta de que eso era una ilusión

Considering the circumstances, it was a rather good kiss. In reality, it would have been perfect if they both had not been coughing from the smoke.

El calendario es un invento humano; el tiempo a nivel spiritual no existe...

the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously—

En fin, aunque nos aferremos a la ilusión de la juventud, la mayoría de la gente de mi edad avanza a tranco largo hacia la decrepitud y todos vamos a terminar muertos antes de que el prejuicio contra la edad sea abolido.

We are what we think. Our being emerges from our thoughts. Our thoughts construct the world," the monk told her telepathically.

Who can define reality? Isn't everything subjective? If you & I witness the same event, we will recall it and recount it differently. ... Memory is conditioned by emotion, we remember better, and more fully, things that move us, such as the joy of a birth, the pleasure of a night of love, the pain of a loved one's death, the trauma of a wound. When we call up the past, we choose intense moments--good or bad--and omit the enormous gray area of daily life.

Quel che si dimentica è come se non fosse mai successo, e i suoi ricordi reali o illusori erano talmente tanti che per lei fu come vivere due volte.

Mi vida está hecha de apariencias, no verdades.

Se le ocurrió que al salir de la oficina de su hermano tendría que valerse solo y aterrizaría de narices en su propio nivel de incompetencia.

talvez el tiempo no pasa, sino que nosotros pasamos a través del tiempo; tal vez el espacio está lleno de presencias de todas las épocas, como decía mi abuela, y todo lo que ha sucedido y lo que sucederá coexiste en un presente eterno.

Così come quando si viene al mondo, morendo abbiamo paura dell'ignoto. Ma la paura è qualcosa d'interiore che non ha nulla a che vedere con la realtà. Morire è come nascere: solo un cambiamento.

These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past. (page 20)

This wasn't a place for illusions; the reality here was the genuine happiness that came about from the natural magic of standing next to someone and being consumed by the fortitude in his or her humanity.

I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.

Whereas a lot of Buddhism concerns itself with stages of enlightenment, various precepts and moral codes, and even power structures and hierarchies, Zen is just like, 'Shut up, sit down, and observe your thoughts - oh, and by the way, what you perceive as you' doesn't actually exist.' I loved the minimalist approach of it.

Instagram influencers project a specific, highly crafted image of perfection - one that is largely white, thin, and psychologically Zen. Critics argue that this boom, in turn, has helped fuel excessive self-promotion in which we post about only the good moments rather than reality - essentially, a distorted echo chamber.

See, if there is zero possessiveness in a relationship, then one needs to put a reality check to see if things are really going fine. So, normally, everyone is a bit possessive, and so am I.

I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?