These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that...

Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all...

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

Reality is only as true as it is perceived. Reality does not change. How it is perceived does.

Can’t look at the damage that’s been done, it’s not healthy. Have to look ahead of it. Can’t change what I’ve done, only what I’m gonna do.

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

Pretend to be poor in reality and you’ll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that...

I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs...

There had always been a conflict in me between mystery and meaning. I had pursued tha latter, worshipped the latter as a doctor. As a socialist and rationalist. But then I saw that the attempt...

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind,” Jane intoned. “Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

Reality is not static—its properties are in constant flux, so perhaps we are as much in the world as we can ever be, and that’s the problem.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

While you are not responsible for the actions of another, you are able to consciously respond to everything in your reality. Your power to respond is your power to create.

There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are.

Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible...

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

Most people, if philosophy touches them, they shatter, they atomize, they turn to dust. It is win/lose between philosophy and delusion, and most people are almost entirely composed of delusion. They’re only allowed as much...

My daddy saidthat the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, the feeling just never goes away.

Adolphe wondered why Lulu hadn’t told them about this, and then realized she probably would when she thought they were old enough to understand it. He could see it wasn’t something one would want to...

The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That’s what we would call it. You’ve got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You’ve got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you...

All that is popular is not always right. All that is right is also not always popular. Somewhere in between, lies all that is real!

I must tell ‘ you ‘ this fact, because ninety nine persons out of hundred among you do not know my Reality.

Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you...

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one’s own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

You only live once so, lets make a difference people will remember.

There is nothing wrong with dreaming, but there is everything wrong with dreaming without any intention to make the dream a reality.

Words are the tools we use to express our reality.

Don’t be too realistic , It will make you an Idiot .

He saw two stars collapse against one another and a nova form; it flared up and then, as he watched, it began to die out. He saw it turn from a furiously blazing ring into...

People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they’ll believe you.

The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it’s my ambition to create something compelling – something unputdownable and riveting – that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.

You want the wage base and the job base to adjust to the housing reality,

Reading is my escape when reality sucks

He actually believes that she was murdered. The reality is, of course, also, that his car, his driver, were involved in this crash; therefore there will be people that believe that he is ultimately responsible...

There is no conscience in a real war.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you’re ready to listen and if you’re ready to be challenged, there’s one thing that you can do, but...

Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.

All truth is God’s truth.

Yes: I exist inside my body.I’m not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket.I don’t want to conquer worlds because I slept badly,And I don’t want to eat the world for breakfast because...

Life is calling you. The other life. The analogue life. The real. Nature is calling you. And people too. Wondrous royal souls are waiting to meet, appreciate and experience you.

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

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

The real wealth or worth of a person is a candid and collective opinion of his closest companions about his indelible image presented or projected in his absence than presence.

Reality is what you think.

Our life is like a journey…’ – and so the journey seems to me less an adventure and a foray into unusual realms than a concentrated likeness of our existence: residents of a city, citizens...

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