Quotes
Quotes about Reality
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.
One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
The reality of life is that your perceptionsâright or wrongâinfluence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancyâthat it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
True creativity quite simply starts with balancing your emotions and activating the power of the heart. Through practicing emotional management from the heart, you tap into the highest form of creativity possible-recreating your perceptions of reality. -Doc Childre.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There is hope in the heart that chases the clouds away. Hope is a higher heart frequency and as you begin to reconnect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. It becomes a matter of how soon you want the sun to shine. Listening to the still, small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart Hope is a higher heart frequency, and as you begin to re-connect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. Listening to the still small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Benjamin Franklin, preface, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758 He that lives upon hope will die fasting. -Sara Paddison.
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of lifeâthe terror of art.
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.
A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
