Quotes About Reality

I wanted to have my own bookstore until I worked in one," [Edward Gorey] reflected in 1998. "Then I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.

You create your own game in your mind based on your beliefs, intents, perception and rules.

When you operate from the assumption that more or better analysis will create consistency, you will be driven to gather as many market variables as possible into your arsenal of trading tools. But what happens then? You are still disappointed and betrayed by the markets, time and again, because of something you didn't see or give enough consideration to. It will feel like you can't trust the markets; but the reality is, you can't trust yourself.

They fail to realize that 99.9 per cent of people with a healthy diet will eventually die.

True wisdom is the ability to see things as they really are. This is a gift the ring cannot bequeath. What wisdom Frodo has must come from a different source

Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said that the limits of one's language were the limits of one's world. By coming up with fresh and arresting words to describe the world accurately, the writer expands the boundaries of her world, and possibly her readers' world, too. Real writing can do what R. P. Blackmur said it could: add to the stock of available reality. There

After the ecstasy, it is said, comes the laundry.

to discriminate between the real and artificial is the beginning of wisdom;

Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.

If this is a dream, I'm begging you, don't ever let them wake me.

Scientific objectivity is one of our most deeply held, and crippling, illusions.

While he could no longer legally hang up a shingle, the good doctor showed no inclination to abandon his well-trodden path dancing along the margins on the outer precincts of reality's most radical possibilities.

The only difference between realizing a dream and losing oneself in fantasy [is] backbreaking work.

Maybe there's no such thing as the truth. Maybe it's all just a point of view,

you're not going to find true love in the personals.

Perceiving is believing. Misperceiving is deceiving— And worse yet, prevents achieving.

Perceiving is believing. Misperceiving is deceiving— And worse yet, prevents achieving. The

Think about what you're thinking. When you consciously analyze the ideas you've formed about a person and weigh these perceptions against reality, you can rewire your brain and build new, more accurate perceptions. Then you'll be communicating with the person who's really in front of you—not the fictitious character conjured up by your false perceptions.

In triunal rigidity, your three brains become aligned with a reality that isn't the one you're currently facing. This leaves you trapped in thought patterns that don't make sense in the present and stops you from accurately processing changes in the future. The result? Chronically crazy behavior—that is, doing the same things over and over and expecting a new reality to change back into the old reality in which those things worked.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. —KAHLIL GIBRAN, POET AND PHILOSOPHER

Metaphors are lies.

They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.

Satan is the great 'I am not'; and he is never happier than when he has convinced people that he is non-existent.

What customers say they want is often different from what they actually want.