Quotes About Reality

Nothing but love, and in this world, love isn't enough.

A free spirit's just an idiot who doesn't want to face reality.

Later she would learn that a mistrust of one's senses was a normal reaction to situations like this. Though the body is alerted and absolutely certain about what is happening, the brain might try to find a way to reason out of it. Was there a word for disbelief in one's own sense.

Is reality exhausted by what is, or does it leave room for all that could be?

Doing what you can to move your part of the world closer to the way it should be, while never losing sight of the way it is, is what being a grown-upmcomes to.

By the time you are old enough to pick up a book like this one, you have learned it: the world is not your world, and you don't have another. (p.107)

What we rarely see receive is a picture of adulthood that represents it as the ideal it should be. (...) What better way to keep people longing for childhood than to paint a picture of adulthood no right-minded soul could ever want?

Keeping an eye on the way the world ought to be, while never losing sight of the way it is, requires permanent, precarious balance. It requires facing squarely the fact that you never get the world you want, while refusing to talk yourself out of wanting it.

And we have seen how Rousseau's insistence on creating a world that makes sense ultimately vitiates his attempt to educate a child for a world that does not.

Doing what you can to move your part of the world closer to the way that it should be, while never losing sight of the way that it is, is what being a grown-up comes to.

almost every face and every voice and scrap of language in this world rises up through a screen or wire like something coming to the surface from the bottom of a lake, or on the other side of some mirrored glass where you can't quite touch it.

I wanted to believe what I was learning about Harry, but the more I heard, the more his life seemed like a series of tall tales, conjured scenes full of wishful thinking. I came to believe that it was quite unlikely that Burt Reynolds had ever met Harry Peak at all.

At this point I realized it was just as well that I never saw a ghost orchid, so that it could never disappoint me, and so it would remain forever something I wanted to see.

I think this is a TRUE story.

Love is being honest with yourself at all times being honest with the other person at all times telling, listening, respecting the truth and never pretending Love is the source of reality

Because I have willed it. And I am not a fairy tale.

The reality of suicide is far different from the fantasy. Most suicidal thinkers romanticize their death by suicide, failing to realize that any suicide gesture or attempt can result in permanent brain, kidney, or liver damage, loss of limbs, blindness, or even death.

language helps create our reality.

The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness.

Not only should the conventional "rules" of marriage not apply necessarily to individual wives, but the euphoria of Phase One is old news. We being to learn that while nothing is as good as it seems, nothing is quite as dire as it appears.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Sanity is a cozy lie.