Quotes About Reality

Our brains construct a world that no one else can see, touch, or hear. Or, as Buddhist teachers sometimes say, "The truth is a pathless land.

We never know them well. Do we?" "Who?" "Real people." "What do you mean, real people?" "As opposed to people in books," Paola explained. "They're the only ones we ever know well. Or know truly.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

And without belief, dreams don't manifest into tangible reality.

Remember that when your life doesn't look the way you want it to, you have the power to change that. You have the ability to shape and create your reality, because what you do causes a ripple effect of change across the Universe. Whether or not you realize it, the Universe is reacting to every single step you take. It's viewed as a very deliberate and conscious action on your part. Ask

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Dreams made your eyes sparkle over the possibilities of doing something new and exciting. Reality made the rest of you break a sweat in panic.

Dreams made your eyes sparkle over the possibilities of doing something new and exciting. Reality made the rest of you break a sweat in panic. I was terrified.

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't." (145)

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is what it means to have no loved version of your life but the one you made.

Our spirituality is our capacity to relate to God, to other human beings, and to the natural world. Through these relationships, we give meaning to our experience and attune our hearts and minds to the deepest dimensions of reality.

Oh, woe to the woman who sticks her nose in a book and forgets that real life is not always destined for Happily Ever After.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Love in action is harsh and dreadful when compared to love in dreams.

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

there was no safety anywhere in life, except as illusion

It was the thought of him that I had problems with, I realised. The reality was really rather desirable.

Whe you're so infatuated with someone like I was with Drew,it's very difficult to see them for what they really are

I'd taken a deep breath before asking about his relationship history. It was the start of this new part of our relationship, and the end of the fun we'd been having. Reality had just entered our world.