Quotes About Reality

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.

It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory.

You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, and your intentions create your reality.

The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion.

As a man is, so he sees.

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly.

We build in thought the conditions that will later come into manifestation on the physical plane.

Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.