A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen...

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

According to this model, human beings are, at least in one aspect, sensation-receiving machines; and although our receptory apparatus is competent to select and organize outward stimuli within the narrow range necessary for physical survival...

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...

The hope crashes into reality and people get hurt.

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.

There’s never enough time to do the job right, but always enough time to do it over.

All truth starts out as a wish; hence, reality is born from fairytale.”from—”My Aquarius

When things run out of control it is because we failed to control how reality plays out. How you manage and control your reality will come to determine your life.

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

Most of us spend life in a trance. Only those who bridge the gap between reality and dreams succeed.

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.