Quotes About Reality

The First Confession Allow me to get defensive for a minute. You see, when I told Wendell that everything was just fine until the breakup, I was telling the absolute truth. Or, rather, the truth as I knew it. Which is to say, the truth as I wanted to see it.

A felicidade equivale à realidade menos as expectativas.

Well, sure, the vows say "in sickness and health" and "for better or worse" and all that, but that's kind of like clicking okay to the terms and conditions when you download an app or sign up for a credit card. You don't think any of that is going to apply to you.

Everything has to be reconsidered, shaped anew. Autobiographical fiction, even if it is inspired by reality, by memory, requires a rigorous selection, a merciless cutting. One writes with the pen, but in the end, to create the right form, one has to use, like Matisse, a good pair of scissors.

I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.

Her dreams felt so far out of reach. She'd faced one of them tonight, faced him in four-inch heels. But four-inch heels didn't make her any younger. She couldn't click her four-inch heels together and find her true way home. Four inches didn't bring her any closer to happiness. Four inches didn't erase the past.

My favorite definition of fear is "False Expectations Appearing Real

And I must say, there was both freedom and challenge for me in recognizing that our perception of the external world, and our relationship to it, is a product of our neurological circuitry. For all those years of my life, I really had been a figment of my own imagination!

Old age robs you of every last illusion, even the belief in your own goodness.

Just because it's normal doesn't make it any easier.

Life isn't fair. You know it isn't, said Lucas. I do know that, but it's still not fair that it isn't fair.

We live days and weeks and months and years with so little awareness of life. We wait for the bad things that wake us up and shock our systems. But every now and then, on the most average day, it occurs to you that this is it. This is all there is.

In his world, people never questioned him. And it was a good place to be, his world. Apparently she hadn't gotten the memo.

Listen, we watch Law and Order. We know shit happens. And shit's happening.

because everyone knew that saying it out loud made it true.

Love isn't pretty and romantic. You know that, right? Love is just stumbling through life with your best friend.

Her heart just about stopped. "Us?" she asked in shock. "There is no us. There's a you. And there's a me. And okay, so sometimes we get crazy and become a very momentary us but it's not real." "It could be," he said. She gaped at him, completely gobsmacked.

sometimes adulthood felt like the vet's office and she was the dog excited for the car ride—only to find out the destination.

You sure about that? he asked. Because it feels pretty fucking real when I'm buried inside you.

what we believe affects how we behave—and how we behave dictates our reality.

Finally, there's the often disregarded but equally important psychological age. Age can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe affects your behavior, and how you behave affects your reality.

Their philosophy was that you should not always trust your senses and sense experience in order to understand the world, but should rely ultimately on logic and mathematics.

When it comes to the meaning of space and time the difficulty we have is not surprising, for we are ourselves imprisoned within them, and it is hard to free our minds from their confines and 'see' reality from the outside.

we have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.