I’d rather be perceived as a winner than a good teammate. I wish they both went hand in hand all the time but that’s just not reality.

Reality is reality when it exists inside and outside the mind.

What we accept as reality is primarily a construction of our imagination.

For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then,...

Beauty begins in the eyes of the beholder; Reality ends in the mind of the observer.

The reality is life is a single-player game. You’re born alone. You’re going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You’re gone in three generations and nobody cares....

Conchpore is real. It is as real as Malgudi, Brahmpur, Lilliput or Macondo. And also as real as San Francisco, Madurai, Edinburgh, Gaborone or Tokyo. You know that fictional towns exist. You visit them all...

Every attempt to fix eternity is an escape from reality. I will be plaguing my days with moments and minutes. For ever is too far!

Memories are reality’s ghosts

I’ve known for a long time they’re a bunch of idiots… I tend to use things as motivation that tend to be in the realm of reality. (Quoted after ESPN ranked Kobe Bryant the 40th-best...

Yesterday’s faults become today’s lessons. Today’s dreams become tomorrow’s reality.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)

He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors.He felt as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts.He was moving from an unreality that was frightening...

This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!

reality sucks, that’s probably why we dream. Why our bodies need sleep. So we can escape. Escape this earth, at least just for a little while. Everynight, we get to go away. Sleep is the...

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

Love is an invisible force that makes you realize that reality is better than fantasy.

Religion is the subjective experience. Science is the objective reality. To argue either is a ridiculous waste of time and energy.

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

A studio allows me more freedom. You can create your own sort of reality which is actually more exciting than shooting on location. You can conjure up a complete atmosphere of escapism for the public.

If you are reading this Libellus, you are a Dreamer, whether you have recognized this or not. Being a Dreamer carries responsibility, one most people are not willing to accept. Responsibility implies that one cannot...

There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call of a bird. Other objects are made up of many elements—the sun, the...

There is a feeling the body gives the mindof having missed something, a bedrock poverty, like fallingwithout the sense that you are passing through one world,that you could reach anotheranytime. Instead the realis crossing you,your...

It almost doesn’t matter what is real or unreal. It really matters what we choose to believe.

The shifting sands of the world… show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of whatever hue, there is a materiality in surrealist writing that resolutely...

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

There’s the parent you want and the parent you have.

I return my attention to the situation at hand and realize Reality—the impatient bitch—has made my decision for me. She does that a lot. You get busy planning your life, then it has the nerve...

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.

Faith…is a concern of the whole person; it is the most personal concern, and that which determines all others. …it is not something which we can produce by the will to believe, but that by...

It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.

The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub.

Learning about freedom, for . . . the very essence of human existence, knowledge, as the mind is an element that enables us to shift the winds of luck, reshape the forces of fate or...

She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.

Your tears of sorrow today will bring bliss in the future….

Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump...

This world you think you know? It’s hidden… in shards of reality.

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and...

Margaux looks around the table; this is not working. All of a sudden she’s thinking about a safe room, something she’s only heard of but suddenly wants: water, oxygen, bulletproof door, dead bolts, a thousand...

Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

what is love? love is you!

Enjoy what you have this moment. Don’t wait around for something that might not happen.

Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality.

Beliefs will nourish or poison depending on their compatibility with reality.

Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.

Basically, Sherri’s idea had to do with bringing Fat’s mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large...

En los exámenes los estúpidos preguntan cosas que los sabios no pueden responder

There is a time for faith, Bishop, and a time for action. It would be a foolish man who stood on a battlefield and faced an army with a Bible in his hands. We are...