Quotes About Reality

Porque vivo en el mundo real, no como tú. Prefieres habitar en un mundo de fantasía antes que ver cómo son los demás realmente.

Sometimes it's like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It's like you see them through a special lens—but maybe if it's how you see them, that's how they really are.

Is this a dream? If so, let me never wake up.

C'est effrayant quand ça devient réel. C'est une chose d'avoir des sentiments pour quelqu'un. C'en est une autre d'avoir la personne en face. De gérer ses attentes. Ses envies.

Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway.

For the truth is in men's heads and in their hearts. Do not always put your trust in words that you see on paper.

You know what's punk rock about marriage? Nothing. You know what's punk rock about marriage? All the puke and shit and piss.

Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.

How is that even possible?" the philosopher says. "He's one of the kindest people I've ever met." She knows. She knows. So it begs the question, doesn't it? Did she unkind and ungood and untrue him?

Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I'd say.

Breathing in, I know that I am of the nature to grow old. Breathing out, I know that I cannot escape old age. Breathing in, I know that I am of the nature to get sick. Breathing out, I know that I cannot escape sickness. Breathing in, I know that I am of the nature to die. Breathing out, I know that I cannot escape dying. Breathing in, I know that one day I will have to let go of everything and everyone I love. Breathing out, I know there is no way to bring them along.

Everything that has eyes will cease to see

The core delusion is that I am here and you are there.

You don't really even have a job, do you?" Ben says one day when I come home early. It's true. I could be one of those people who got fired months ago but still pretends to go to work every day.

Advice for wives circa 1896: The indiscriminate reading of novels is one of the most injurious habits to which a married woman can be subject. Besides the false views of human nature it will impart Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it produces an indifference to the performance of domestic duties, and contempt for ordinary realities.

It's what you do when you grow up, apparently, face up to things you'd rather not and accept the fact that nobody is who you thought they were, maybe not even close.

There are many people who, when God's hand is out against them, will say they are troubled for their sin, but the truth is, it is the affliction that troubles them rather than their sin. Their heart greatly deceives them in this very thing.

Now there is to be such a time here in this world, when God shall be all in all, and in comparison there shall be no such need of creatures as there is now, then the saints should labor to live as near that life as possibly they can, that is, to make up all in God. Oh, that you would consider this mystery, that it may be a reality to the hearts of the saints in such times as these. They would find this privilege that they get by grace worth thousands of worlds.

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.

shop assistants who think they can sing

The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.

Michael Ryan seemed a very nice chap to me. He was pleasant enough, but he appeared to be someone who wasn't getting to grips with life.

This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary; and to change what we see, it is sometimes necessary to change what we believe.

One thing became clear as I thought back to my stay in Quirishari. Every time I had doubted one of my consultants' explanations, my understanding of the Ashaninca view of reality had seized up; conversely, on the rare occasions that I had managed to silence my doubts, my understanding of local reality had been enhanced — as if there were times when one had to believe in order to see, rather than the other way around.