Quotes About Reality

I'd just pledged to you to keep protecting the happiness of everyone on this planet, forever. And it's not a dream at all! Defending this planet is our everyday reality. We can't let ourselves get defeated here, by nightmares or even our own dreams...! ...There's no way we Sailor Guardians can lose!

The truth has always been a more complex commodity than the market can easily package and sell.

However complicated you think it is, everything is always more complicated than that.

It's not a fucking crisis anymore. This is the new reality.

Even a stone is not the same as any other stone. There is no shape to anything except the shape it has. Every name we give ourselves is wrong. Our dreams are more true than our waking.

What can I tell you? Welcome to the human race. You people like to pretend things are simple, even at your own cost.

Still, it was hard to believe in a faint shadow on the lung. Who could see a shadow? What was a shadow? The congregation could not believe that Rav Krushka could succumb to a shadow.

You know what they say about "truth" and "the appearance of truth" being opposites.

Nuestros sueños son más auténticos que nuestro despertar

There is no shape to anything except the shape it has. Every name we give ourselves is wrong.

It's like this essential feature of human beings simply doesn't exist in the full-color magazine world.

But Wishbone didn't know the whole story. He hadn't seen the ravaged bodies, the burning flesh. One minute friends laughed, full of life; next minute, destroyed. Those things never escaped one's mind. Once you witnessed that, you saw evil, and it didn't live in just Americans or Japanese. It lived close by, in friends, in neighbors, and, most frighteningly, inside yourself.

Radical acceptance is to know that painful things are still going to happen, but how we respond makes a difference. We don't have to condone our current reality, but we have to accept it for what it is instead of staying stuck, wishing it were different.

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.

Western scientists built an intellectual culture based on the premise that it was worse to fool oneself into believing in something that did not exist than not to believe in something that did.

Accepting that by-products of industrial civilization were irreparably damaging the global environment was to accept the reality of market failure. It was to acknowledge the limits of free market capitalism.

I understand that you are learning new things, seeing a different way of life and because you are you, you're full of enthusiasm. But let the mother you think knows nothing and is pretty much useless tell you this: people are just people. Nobody is a bigger saint than the next one; they just hide their true selves better. Sooner or later, you'll figure out for yourself that this community you're madly in love with and want so much to be a part of is just like the rest of the world.

I used to think religious people were kinder, nicer, had better characters, but I found out they're just like everybody else, just people. Some are better, some are worse. There are sincere ones . . . but also the opposite . . .

It's better to know the truth and suffer the consequences than live in the lie.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.