Quotes About Reality

sizin dünyan?zda, o dünyay? bizlerin san?p ya?arken, hepinize hayrand?k.

Hani yar?nlar güzel olurmu? diyorlard? Olric? Bu ya?ad???m?z gün de dünün yar?n'? de?il mi? -Kand?r?yorlar efendim, kand?r?yorlar.

Ben ucuz bir romand?m. Hay?r, kötü bir edebiyat?n bile bir gerçekli?i vard?: Can s?k?c? taklitçileri bile benden gerçekti. Ben yoktum; hatta ben yokum, olmad?m diyemeyecek bir yerdeydim; kelimeler bile yanyana gelerek beni tan?mlamak istemezlerdi. Ne olurdu benim de kelimelerim olsayd?; bana ait bir cümle, bir dü?ünce olsayd?. Binlerce y?ld?r söylenen milyonlarca sözden hiç olmazsa biri, beni içine alsayd?!

There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.

The true sadness of reality it's that it is forgotten that magic is everywhere. We buried it with worry and tedium because deep inside we all know it takes strength to wield a wand. It takes energy and belief to step back from the fog of reality and recognize the wonder in almost everything. You're resisting what is inevitable, and when you finally figure this all out things will be both heavier and more fantastic.

While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.

Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina

Yes," he said, "intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn't matter.

I'm still learning how dogged people can be in denial, even when their freedom or their lives are at stake.

Yes," he said, "intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike.

nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence

Stumbling across the truth isn't the same as making things up.

I want you to be serious. I realize I don't know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.

We give lip service to acceptance, as though acceptance were enough. Then we go on to create super-people - super-parents, super-kings, and queens, super-cops - to be our gods and to look after us - to stand between us and God. Yet God has been here all along, shaping us and being shaped by us in no particular way or in too many ways at once like an amoeba - or like a cancer. Chaos.

Earthseed deals with ongoing reality, not with supernatural authority figures. Worship is no good without action. With action, it's only useful if it steadies you, focuses your efforts, eases your mind.

Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God.

Pleasure is rare, pain is plentiful, and, delusional or not, it hurts like hell.

I don't like most Utopia stories because I don't believe them for a moment. It seems inevitable that my Utopia would be someone else's hell.

The powerful imaginative impulse that produced Kindred had its first test runs in the escapist fantasies of a child who needed to find or invent alternative realties. By temperament and by virtue of her strict Baptist upbringing, Butler was reclusive; imaginary worlds solaced her against the pinched rewards of the actual world, and books took the place of friends.

And what? You think it's going to get sane? It's never been sane. You just have to go ahead and live, no matter what." I didn't know what to say, so I kissed

intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn't matter. A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial.

I realize I don't know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.

Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe.

Some say God is a spirit, a force, an ultimate reality. Ask seven people what all of that means and you'll get seven different answers. So what is God? Just another name for whatever makes you feel special and protected?