the original reality show.

In a formal socialization, no one individual can stand without the other to rely on, regardless of the situation.

My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it’s simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.

Being in a wheelchair has made everyday things difficult. Things you wouldn’t imagine. Like the looks I get at high school basketball games when they tell everyone to stand for the National Anthem.

If you have a strong stomachread on.

A man does not care if somebody loves him or not. All he wants is to be understood.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists,...

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can’t avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon...

Usually, if I’m yelling at the TV, I’m in a bar. If I’m by myself, and it’s not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can’t hear me through the television set.

It is hope–with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet–that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and...

Maybe I made it up.”p55

La realtà sfuma e tutto diventa memoria. Perfino tu, a poco a poco, hai cessato di essere un desiderio e sei diventato un ricordo.

it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright

I’ve always felt that the reality of life is best expressed through allegory that transcends…well, the reality of life. Fantasy is the lens through which I make sense of the world. Plus, it’s a lot...

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...

Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and a corset. Doesn’t make sense to others, but it’s not for them. It’s...

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Man, do you ever feel it’s just the hope of things we live for?’ I asked. ‘I mean, it’s like the things themselves are just a big disappointment, you know? We like the searching, the...

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Part ways with your perception of reality, allow the unknown and your curiosity muster into a visual you’ve never allowed yourself to see.

Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.

There is no corelation between life and death, except that life is the biggest lie we believed, while death; is the most certain truth.

The best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods.

A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you...

The world and humanity were created by God and are therefore divinely inspired and intrinsically holy.

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and...

Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.

Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases...

If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality.

This is reality, back home is routine.

When you’re older, you want to be scared because you understand more where the boundaries between fantasy and reality are, and I suppose they are more blurred the younger you are.

Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That’s an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it’s next door to impossible not to...

In order to live in the reality of your God’s given destiny, you must consistently guard your mind against all self-defeating thoughts.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

I just realized my reality, and I’d like to say No Thanks. I’m going back to sleep.

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

Men are like parking spots. All the good ones aretaken, and those that aren’t are inaccessible.”PHOEBE TRAEGER

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.

Actually, nothing hurts like hearing the word slut, unless it is hearing the word rape dropped about carelessly. Again, a word I wouldn’t have thought much about, except that when I was in high school...

In reality, for me every role is completely different.

We fall in love and let our minds fall apart..We let ourselves fall, and keep falling..Our minds are caught by one another, mixed up in a random puzzle, piece by piece put together into a...

The average Bhutanese knows much more about the world than the average American…(for Americans)It is more comfortable to watch fake news about celebrities than to know what’s happening in China or southern Sudan. But events...

My life exists in an imagined reality.

There is no deeper reality. The water at the bottom is the same as the water at the top.

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.

A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.

As though sensing her heightening alarm, Pinfeathers halted his advance.”I can’t help it that I’m susceptible to you”, he whispered.”You know that. It’s just that you’re so…unreal…and so I have to touch you. If only...