Quotes About Reality

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.

Much better to be crazy provided you know what/where sane is.

Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make their lives more livable.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills

Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Trust me, somewhere over the rainbow, happily ever after, etcetera, etcetera - looks far less likely in your mid-thirties.

I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it's nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded.

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.