Quotes About Reality

It's no good wishing for the impossible. Don't wish. Remember. Remembrances are real.

You can walk through the grocery store and, while the brightly colored packaging and empty promises are still mesmerizing, you can see the products for what they are.

Yet when our thinking quietens down, the upset tends to disappear. If we look closely, we can see the idea that another person can make us feel a certain way is as illusory as the 'white triangle' we hallucinate when we look at the image above. And that is why the physicist David Bohm said, 'Thought creates our world and then says, "I didn't do it.

God is not He who is, but That which is.

There are too many people trying to escape from reality because they do not see their identity as having purpose or meaning.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

An ideal society, properly so-called, can be none other than an actual, present, society taken at its truest and best.

The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.

In business, words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

"Industrial organic" might sound like an oxymoron, but it is a reality.

Only in promotional brochures was Los Angeles the City of Angels. To those who knew it, really knew it, it was not a city, but a vast, open grave swallowing up young lives.

I wonder why things always seem most real to us when we lose them, he said softly.

They don't get any skinnier after you marry them.

they immersed themselves paradoxically in vision-directed reality testing: no rose-colored glasses, no blind spots, no positive thinking. Ruthless attention to reality was the common path to attaining their visions.

Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.

What's real and what's not? People we meet in books--Holden Caulfield, Captain Ahab, Huckleberry Finn, Harry Potter, Bilbo and Gandalf and Frodo-- can become more memorable, and more important to us than people with birth certificates and drivers' licenses. Characters spawned in an author's imagination find a home inside us. They make our lives richer. They become our best friends. They never disappoint. And they never die.

Minimize expectations to avoid being disappointed.

But the reality was that there was only the Force. It was above such petty concepts as positive and negative, black and white, good and evil. The only difference worthy of note was this: The Jedi saw the Force as an end in itself; the Sith knew that it was a means to an end. And that end was Power.

Many of today's practising theorists seem to be unconcerned that their hypotheses should eventually confront objective, real-world observations.

Truth is a matter of semantics, whether we like it or not.

Everyone thinks I'm so strong. They expect me to face autumns and winters like that and bitch-slap them down; make them come to heel. I'm not so strong. I only pretend.

Although reality can sometimes corrupt the fairy tale and alter our ambitions, some things remain unalterable. From the richest to the poorest, we start and end with family.

She is more memory than reality. She belongs to a time of teenage crushes, first kisses, crowded lecture halls and smoky pubs. Even if she had lived, we might have had nothing in common except the past.