Quotes About Reality

It is sometimes hard to recognized real love. So much nonsense it talk about love and so much nonsense is written about it that it is sometimes hard to recognize the real thing.

Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority.

For this is the great secret, which was known to all educated men in our day: that by what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

Tell me how you are." "I'm fine, Mother." "No one is fine. Fine is a placeholder.

She believes her parents do not love her less, only that before, she had a child's notion of love that did not include the small treacheries of delusion and fear and shame.

As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.

Fiksie verg nou eenmaal 'n gedeeltelike verdoeseling of vervalsing van feite, anders is dit nie meer fiksie nie.

she kept hoping Mulder and Scully would kiss each other well and good. Having a relationship vicariously through fantasy and excellent scripting was all Aggie had at the moment - and to be honest, it wasn't all that bad. Her imagination was always better than reality...

In appealing for Christian scholarship, the point is not primarily academic respectability, and certainly not the mindless pursuit of publication for its own sake that bedevils the modern university. The point is rather that the comprehensive reality of Christianity itself demands specifically Christian consideration of the world we inhabit, whether that consideration is of social theory, the history of science, other historical changes, the body, the arts, literature, or more.

Flint", said Tanis gravely."I know you'll be terribly disappointed. But you've only got a cold. You're not dying.

In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

The spiritual tipping point is when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of change. Sadly, too many of us get comfortable with comfort. We follow Christ to the point of inconvenience, but no further. That's when we need a prophet to walk into our lives, throw a mantle around our shoulders, and wake us up to a new possibility, a new reality. We need a prophet to boldly confront Plan B and call us back to Plan A.

Psychologists call this phenomenon the contrast effect. Simply put, how you see anything depends on your reference point. One way or the other, your focus will determine your reality.

The paradigm shift happens when we come to terms with the fact that the world doesn't revolve around us.

we tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a year.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.6

One of two things happens over time. Either your theology will conform to your reality, and your expectations will get smaller and smaller until you can hardly believe God for anything. Or your reality will conform to your theology, and your expectations will get bigger and bigger until you can believe God for absolutely everything!

The emotions we experience don't reflect our external reality; they reflect our internal reality.

We don't see the world as it is; we see the world as we are.

You will notice that I have not written about the horrors of prison life, or the conditions, hardships, treatment and so forth, because men reading this book who have been to jail will be bored to tears and people who haven't been to jail can bloody well come in here and find out for themselves.

Stereotyping didn't become stereotyping without being rooted in fact. - Petra Reuter

As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.

The things we think we know are just stories we have been told. They are not necessarily true.

If I was controlled by anything, it was my perception of who I was.