Quotes About Reality

One reads Paul poorly who does not recognize that for him the presence of the Spirit, as an experienced and living reality, was the crucial matter for Christian life, from beginning to end.

By the presence of the Spirit, God's love, played out to the full in Christ, is an experienced reality in the heart of the believer. This is what the Spirit has so richly "shed abroad in our hearts." If we are not thus overtaken by God himself at this crucial point, then all else is lost, and we are without peace, groveling before God, living with little real hope, and experiencing present sufferings as a cause for complaint and despair rather than for "boasting.

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. —JAMES JOYCE

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored," said Aldous Huxley.

Don't part with your illusions," said Mark Twain. "When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong

life consists of an effort to get the maps in our heads to conform to the ground on which we walk.

Most of the heartbreak that life contains is a result of ignoring the reality that past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

Where ever I go, there I am. Drunk.

When we're drinking the world makes so much sense, but as soon as we sober up it returns to chaos and confusion.

The world is governed more by appearance than reality, and therefore it is fully as necessary to seem to know something, as to know it in reality.

Whatever is — is best.

Positive thinking does not mean trying to create something that is not there. Real positive thinking acknowledges that good already exists — indeed it is all that exists.

Did you think Beauty was so easy and merry a companion? Perhaps you were confusing Beauty with Having a Good Time.

Beer lays a comforting veil of mirth between reality and me.

Belief stains darker, imprints deeper than truth.

Life will magnify what you choose to believe.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are, if indeed you cannot get it above them, than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

It is an absolute fact that shadows are as much colours as lights are...

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend only a little of this mystery every day.

One man's daydreaming is another man's day.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.