Quotes About Reality

nothing helped tea. It simply was what it was, which was boiling hot and flavorless.

We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly.

I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it's even harder to recognize the truth when it's buried underneath layers of what we imagine relationships should be like.

Maybe the truth doesn't exist if you look the other way.

The first step toward power is to accept reality

It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.

And when she goes home,' Uncle Max said, 'to the place and the people she has romanticized all these months, she'll see that it isn't all she imagined. She'll be different, but they'll all expect her to be the same.

Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails

More than men had died at Lincoln. It seemed to Stephen that reality was a casualty, too, for nothing made sense anymore. What was he doing here in the solar of Lincoln Castle, bleeding all over the Earl of Chester's wife?

nothing in life turns out as we thought it would, nothing...

The fulfillment we have in owning, in desiring, is temporary and illusory, because there is nothing at all we can have that we will not lose eventually. And so there is always fear.

Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.

I've been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened," Mark Twain once said.

Our vision becomes very narrow when we need things to be a certain way and cannot accept things the way they actually are.

Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was.

At times, reality is love's great challenge. When our old stories and dreams are shattered, our first instinct may be to resist, deny, or cling to the way things were. But if we loosen our grip, often what fills the space is a tender forgiveness and the potential for a new and different kind of love.

Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don't want to believe it.

So often we operate from ideas of love that don't fit our reality.

I know that safety is always unattainable. You're never safe.

I have often watched in fascination the leaps and bounds of her mind as, starting from the banks of uncomfortable facts, she reaches the safety of easier-tolive-with invention.

India is not an underdeveloped country but a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

The British public is woefully ignorant of the realities of the British empire, and what it meant to its subject peoples.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.

Human beings don't live in the long run they live and suffer in the here and now