Reality Quotes - Page 51

...that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove themselves to be such.

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.

Your thoughts are your reality. Change them and change your world!

But it's not enough. I don't look human. If I went outside, people would scream at the sight of me. Looks matter to most people. That's reality in the world.""Not my world."I petted Pilot. "I like your world, Will, but it doesn't have a very big population. I'm going to let her go.

And I was your moon because I shined brighter than any other star in your universe and you were my darkness. Without you I could not see the depth of my light and with you I could set the night a glow. So we needed one another—the dark and the light. Your fear. My courage. Connected, but separated. Different, but the same. A synergy that made no sense, but every bit of sense. We were neither a beginning, nor an end. We were somewhere in between our madness at sunset and the reality we awakened to with each sunrise. We were the ghosts of timing and fate. We were neither fantasy, nor reality--- we were a purpose somewhere in between.

I welcome questions. I hate assumptions.

You cannot be truthful if you are not courageous. You cannot be loving if you are not courageous. You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous. You cannot inquire into reality if you are not courageous. Hence courage comes first and everything else follows.

Reading is an escape people use in order to get away from reality. It is a chance to be free and explore who you are.

The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world’s greatest love poems, because they’re love poems about love, not about being poems. The poet loves because he loves, not because love exists.

We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours.

Happiness is a perceptual reality, not an absolute certainty.

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

Who are you? No really. Way, way down deep. Who are you?

This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.

Live in your dream and then make it your reality.

Be aware for there is a snare ready for a serpent

One should clearly know that " Every thought that one thinks and every action based on that thought, is taking us either closer to our principal purpose or away from it" Watch out then ....as thoughts become realities!

The world, as it is, is not a permanent reality, but is a temporary product of our choices as creators.

We welcome into our homes the machines that vacuum the thoughts out of our heads and pump in someone else's. John Berger in Ways of Seeing said that television advertisers succeeded by persuading viewers to envy themselves as they would be if they bought the product. These programmes do something similar, by persuading the viewer to envy himself as he would be if his life were that little bit more exciting and melodramatic than it actually is. They can make things seem normal that are not.

Every morning there are flowers of potentials. Your thoughts and interactions give them shape and reality.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

A tormenting thought: as of a certain point, history was no longer real. Without noticing it, all mankind suddenly left reality; everything happening since then was supposedly not true; but we supposedly didn't notice. Our task would now be to find that point, and as long as we didn't have it, we would be forced to abide in our present destruction.

Life is beautiful – but no one comes out of it alive. So live each day as if it’s your last. Walk in the sunshine. Dance beneath the stars. Laugh hard and long and never, ever forget how very special you are.

...one could accept Muhammad as a genuine mystic—just as one could accept Joan of Arc's voices as having genuinely been heard by her, or the revelations of Saint John the Divine as being that troubled soul's 'real' experiences—without needing also to accept that, had one been standing next to the Prophet of Islam on Mount Hira that day, one would also have seen the Archangel.

Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.

Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.

Learn the truth...never assume.Understand the plight...never judge.Put yourself in someone's shoes...never hurt.Think before you act, reason before you react.

You don't look well," he pronounced."Indigestion," I replied."From what?""Reality.""Join the queue.

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

No two person, ever read the same book.

I won't fuck with you if you can't seem to understand.

When you hate someone, in reality you are hating yourself.

That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.

Reality is not what we see, reality is what we think we see.

Hope can be foolish or misguided, but there was no such thing as false hope. Hope was always true even when there was no evidence to support its claim.” - Liam

Every engine takes advantage of a difference.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Just because you took longer than others, doesn’t mean you failed.

There is no conscience in a real war.

In reality, those who cheat are indeed the ones who get cheated. Those who are cheated will gain experience and develop (spiritually) in the process. Only money earned dishonestly will be taken away (by nature) from one; rightfully earned money will be put to good use!

Reality does not yield to wishful thinking and truth cannot be established by a political party (or any other organization for that matter).

Adventure is the best way to feel the reality thoroughly!

Your mindset determines your reality. Think positive, Act positive and Live positive.

We may be born equal but we do not prepare equally...

Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation.

The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, since the fulfilment never measures up to what we imagine.

Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.

It is necessary to build a system or a structure which will allow you to form your dream into reality

You can change someone by your actions, not by your words

I know you do not understand what I am trying to tell you; I know you do not understand, because it is the thing that goes deepest into my heart, and there are no words as deep down as that. How can I make you know the reality of it? The world has spattered us all over with words, with cant phrases, with sarcasm, and with fulsome flattery. The world has been so officiously eager to explain for us the thing we mean and the worth of the thing that now, when we try to speak, our meaning is veiled, concealed, smothered, by the hideous volubility of facile expression. How can it have any reality for you when you hear only words about it?

I think that's just a story.""But, Jace," she said. "All stories are true.

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

Silence is the language of nature and beauty where perception and feelings are the only reality.

Follow your passion? Sure...but for most one needs to follow their passion after work and on weekends.

Art does what reality cannot.

Our bird of hope was being denied the altitude it sought, just free enough to fly dangerously close to the reality of the treetops.

Today, man has been mired in invalidness up to such an extent, that being suspicious about reality isn't in his hand.

You must now go home, where everything -- you can be quite sure -- will be falser than here....You must go now. You'll leave by the right, through the alley....