Quotes About Reality

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I always live in the present. I don't know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.

I've learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.

Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.

But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.

You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people

The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.