Quotes About Reality

Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.

The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

Everyone is dealing with something. This is life; this is not just a piece of cake.

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.

Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

The reality is that life, for all of us, is pretty stressful and we all need ways to cope.

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

You are what you believe you are.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.

Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

A normal life. Such a simple idea, but it's almost impossible for me to picture.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.