Reality Quotes - Page 30

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.

Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelled, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.

Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality.

Imagination creates reality.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.

The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

All speech, action and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion.

Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

It is better to invert reality than to copy it.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.

I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

If you choose to live in solutions, the world eagerly awaits your dreams and provides every tool and opportunity you need to turn them into reality