Quotes About Reality

From the moment it is born, from the moment it is built, everything is always dying, decaying, drifting into chaos.

Supongo que el amor cae donde cae. La madre Owd levantó una ceja. —Por lo general se ve caer de lejos y da tiempo a apartarse. —Pues

It can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort. All the things that Jezal had thought he wanted—power, fame, the beautiful trappings of greatness—they were nothing but dust. All he wanted now was for things to be as they had been, before he got them. But there was no way back. Not ever.

war, plans and reality barely noticed each other in passing. Panicked guesswork was the best one could hope for.

Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself.

The past isn't made of facts, not really, just stories people tell to make themselves feel better. To make themselves look better.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse." —Joseph Brodsky What Freedom Looks Like The point of the shovel bit into the ground with the sharp scrape of metal on earth.

Sometimes pretty lies win the day. But sometimes ugly truths cut deeper.

She leaned a little closer to whisper it. "Primrose Heights. Calling a thing a different thing don't make it a different thing, now does it?" "Wouldn't know," croaked Broad, who beat men for a living and called it labour relations, "I'm no philosopher.

No one was safe in Valbeck now. Perhaps no one ever truly was. Perhaps safety was a lie people told themselves so they could carry on.

But there's no beating the Great Leveller. No man comes back from the mud.

They tell you drink makes you happy, but what they mean is it makes happy folk happier. They don't tell you that it makes unhappy folk more fucking unhappy than ever.

No one likes to shake hands with the man who empties the latrine pits eitherm but pits have to be emptied all the same. Otherwise the world fills up with shit.

One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself. Some kinds of power are nothing but tricks of the mind.

can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort.

Power is a bloody mirage. The closer you seem to get the further away it is

The truth, if it ever existed, has gone through its customary transformation into something more easily digested by the human mind.

Perception is reality. Certainly I can say that my perception is my reality and your perception is your reality. The challenge is to choose a perception that is most likely to create opportunity.

So if we want to change some aspect of our reality, we have to think, feel, and act in new ways; we have to "be" different in terms of our responses to experiences. We have to "become" someone else. We have to create a new state of mind … we need to observe a new outcome with that new mind.

Reason this: When you think from your past memories, you can only create past experiences. As all of the "knowns" in your life cause your brain to think and feel in familiar ways, thus creating knowable outcomes, you continually reaffirm your life as you know it. And since your brain is equal to your environment, then each morning, your senses plug you into the same reality and initiate the same stream of consciousness.

A new state of being creates a new personality … a new personality produces a new personal reality. How will you know whether this meditative practice has activated your three brains to produce the intended effect? Simple: you will feel different as a result of investing in the process.

Your brain and body don't know the difference between having an actual experience in your life and just thinking about the experience—neurochemically, it's the same.

Reality is not one continuous and consistent stream, but is instead, a field of infinite possibilities over which we can exert enormous influence—that is, if we tune into the proper levels of mind.

What beliefs and perceptions about you and your life have you been unconsciously agreeing to that you'd have to change in order to create this new state of being?