Quotes About Reality

He knows he only has the choice of going crazy or going inside and finding his own mind, which is what Buddhism is all about. Buddhism maintains that one's reality is part of one's own mindset, and that through discovering your own mind, even in the direst situations you can make your world a pure realm.

People do lie to themselves, and they get away with it because every action affirms and reaffirms their perception. That's the power of the human mind. that's the power of thought, which is nothing more- and nothing less- than energy. And when you have a particularly powerful mind, extraordinary things can happen.

I scrape under a nail and I pull out dirt. I pull off an overlay and I smell urine. It's the rot of their lives seeping into their nailbeds, you see? They can fix their hair and paint their nails and run on a treadmill until they're anorexia's poster child, but they can't fix their lives...lives of rotting perfection.'

The dreams we had of finding meaning and fulfillment through our jobs have faded into the reality of professional politics, burnout, boredom and intense competition.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Prinn lived by one governing thought: Whenever life seems to be going surprisingly well, just wait ten seconds and everything will go back to shit like normal.

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation.

The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

Rene Descartes, in order to raise skeptical doubts about even our firmest certainties, imagined that we might he under the influence of an evil demon, and more modern philosophers have speculated about the possibility of our being brains in vats.

after all, there is such a thing as truth.

Hennes självbedrägeri ljög fram en vrångbild, som i mycket liknade lyckan.

My mother, now covered, was no longer my mother. A covered apple is no longer an apple. A sketch of a person isn't the person. Somewhere, in the morning, my mother had become the sketch. And I would spend the rest of my life trying to shade her back in.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.

False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.