Quotes About Reality

You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.

Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.

Dream either keeps you awake, or wouldn't let you wake

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Nunca les pasó estar con alguien muy hermoso? Ver a esa persona, escucharla hablar, seguir cada uno de sus fascinantes gestos, admirar su belleza… y más tarde mirarse en el espejo y darse cuenta de que uno es horrible y que estuvo creyéndose bello simplemente porque estaba mirando a alguien lindo que resultó no ser uno.

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

But adulthood slipped up on you, she thought. It was forced on you whether you liked it or not.

I like to know the truth. That's all. I just wish the truth was different.

That—that's a Carthian sun dragon," he said, shooting a look at Strangward. "Isn't it?" Strangward nodded. "But . . . it is my understanding that dragons are not real," Botetort said. Strangward looked from the dragon to Botetort. "I assure you, this dragon is absolutely real. Touch it if you like.

It's not just the real, but the perspective of real that counts. If people perceive you as weak, then you are weak, even if it's a survival strategy.

That's the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like.

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

I know I have this judgmental side that I'm often fighting against. But today I recognized the depths of my assumptions about people. What I envision is nothing remotely similar to the reality. Humility hurts. Coming home is disturbing.

Choose reality, Sarah. It's the only place where strength and faith can begin to work.

It's hard to imagine a bigger desert oasis than Las Vegas.

Perception is reality. Media is omnipresent. Therefore, he who controls the media controls perception, and therefore controls reality TV, and therefore controls reality. Take

There certainly has remained with me the feeling that my identity is entirely illusory, and that by losing it, I have lost nothing, except something, except everything.

Hij is zacht, goed, subliem, rechtvaardig. Maar wie herkent zich in die mengeling die ruikt als naar transcendentie verbannen rozenwater? Een wezen zonder valsheid mist diepgang en mysterie; het verbergt niets. Alleen onzuiverheid is een kenteken van realiteit.[...] Omdat hij overloopt van leven, heeft de Duivel geen altaar: de mens herkent zich te veel in hem om hem te aanbidden.

Para usted que ya no la tiene, la libertad es todo. Para nosotros que sí, es meramente una ilusión.

Naught is simple about the truth. There is the truth of what happened and the truth of what I believe happened and the truth of what I still remember to have happened. And that does not embrace the truths perceived and remembered by others, let alone whether any of us witnessed the fullness of the truth in the first place.

It's hard to know what has become folklore and what is reality. But don't all myths stem from some semblance of fact?

I wanted perfection. But it turns out, here on earth, we don't get perfection; we get people.

Some wounds are invisible. It doesn't mean they're not real.