Reality Quotes - Page 126

Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their word. To grasp, to carry out the diktat of images to the letter.

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing.

The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able to see not only the absence of complexity, the absence of duality, but the stoneness of stone and the waterness of water. One sees things precisely as they are, not merely in the physical sense, but with awareness of their spiritual significance.

There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

People who believe their unquestioned thoughts cannot see what is obvious and directly in front of their faces at all times, because they are invested in what they believe to be true. As long as they live out of an unquestioned mind, they must continue to argue with what they believe is happening rather than the reality of what is really happening.

To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.

Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

There is only one thing in your life YOU can be sure of. That one thing is this moment, now. The last moment has gone forever. The next moment has not come. YOU can become fully conscious only when you are living in the moment. To begin to live in the moment you have to know it exists and understand it. To understand it you have to observe it in relation to yourself and in relation to life. When you understand it, when you become conscious, you will see it is all that exists. To see this is to glimpse reality.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality.

I never miss reality when I'm not in it, but it's sometimes nice to come back to.

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.