Quotes About Reality

Don't compare the insides of your marriage to the outsides of other people's marriages. Pictures don't tell the truth. Smiling faces on Christmas cards don't reveal the pain behind the scenes. While your struggles are very personal and often very painful, but they are not unique.

linear narrative was not doing a very good job representing life as I experienced it,

WHEN IT WAS DECIDED (When was that again, and by whom?) that we were all supposed to choose between fiction and nonfiction, what was not taken into account was that for some of us truth can never be an absolute, that there can (at best) be only less true and more true and sometimes those two collapse inside each other like aTurducken.

A god in the hand is worth two on Olympus.

Lawrence's genius is exploiting the space between fact-based truth and news-based reality, and he created successful campaigns for contenders in local races before advancing to state and national elections.

Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat. "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.

She probably should've seen it coming, but she'd put too much faith in the system. And that was a hard pill to swallow.

School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.

Kissing the frog to get the prince is a waste of a perfectly good frog.

School prepares you for the real world but I want the fake world. TEEHEE

This is the real world, and only a believer walking in fellowship with His Creator and Redeemer can understand it. Everyone else is the world is experiencing a 'break with reality'.

Reality (i.e., the truth) is that there is a God in heaven. Reality is that He made us and we are accountable to Him. Reality is that this God has spoken and what He says matters--eternally. Reality is that without His salvation, we are doomed to eternal torment. Reality is that God's Son, Jesus Christ, has died for the sins of the world, that He has risen again, and that whoever believes on Him is given eternal life.

Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

The world he saw on the news came to seem like a genre-fusing farce, its story lines ever less plausible, ever more dispiriting. The world of the chamber, by contrast, was all impressionist masterworks, images and plotlines manifestly finer and more nourishing than what, of late, was passing for the real.

We don't matter. There's the good news.

Creo que todo el mundo debería hacerse rico y famoso y conseguir lo que siempre ha soñado para darse cuenta de que no es la solución

Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant.

Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

I think I'd like her to turn round. I want to see her face a second time. That first time she was hardly visible. She was little more than dark on dark, a body shape, as I remember it. If only she would spin round on her heels and the moonlight would oblige, I could persuade myself she's real and not a spectre summoned up by loneliness.

Faith never denies reality but leaves room for God to grant a new reality.

Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?

it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.

Aucune drogue n'est plus puissante que le réel, m'avait dit un jour John Seasons, car le réel, malgré notre obstination arrogante, terrifiée et pleine d'espoir, n'a pas besoin de nos perceptions, tout juste de notre présence impuissante.