Quotes About Reality

Humans looked at the stars and they wished and they dreamed. He looked at the stars and knew they didn't matter. The stars were just chunks of glass in the black sky. No, the stars were meaningless.

Thought you'd be older." He shook his head. "Hoped you'd be uglier.

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want.

It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.

I)t's just as important to show the hard things in the world as it is to show the beautiful ones. Even in the midst of horrible things, there are little bits of wonder, and all of it's true.

All she had to do was tell the truth. This would be easy. I should've known, though. Real truth is never easy" -Lily

Mom says I have to deal with what is and not to get my hopes up, but how else can hopes go but up?

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true.

Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

The range of our knowledge of reality is limited by our pre-existing beliefs, assumptions, and expectations

We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream

The more attention we pay to the idea that reality shifts, the more we see our reality shift

Reality shifts occur when we are in a dreamy state of energized awareness in which we are clear about what we prefer

Anyone who can relax, clear their mind, and envision being different in some way—such as more successful, funny, healthy, wealthy, or wise—can quantum jump. To initiate a quantum jump requires keeping an open mind that you can experience another reality. It is important that you are able to sincerely desire and feel a connection to another reality, envisioning some way of making a connection with it through a bridge, a door, a window or a handshake.

Quantum jumping is the process by which a person envisions some desired result or state of being that is different from the existing situation—and by clearly observing that possibility and supplying sufficient energy, makes a leap into that alternate reality.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Never will I make that extra effort to live according to reality which alone makes good writing possible: hence the manic-depressiveness of my style,—which is either bright, cruel and superficial; or pessimistic; moth-eaten with self-pity

Surely we are all mad people, and they Whom we think are, are not;

Men will clutch illusions when they have nothing else to hold onto.

The work of human thought should withstand the test of brutal, naked reality. If it cannot, it is worthless. Probably only those things are worthwhile which can preserve their validity in the eyes of a man threatened with instant death.