#reality

"Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities."

"I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake."

"The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively."

"Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like."

"Tatsuya: What you have "right now"won't necessarily continue on until forever...Hiro: ... Yeah, I know."

"nothing in this world was more difficult than love."

"The trouble with fiction,"said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense."

"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 lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them."

"We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN."

"In reality art is always for everyone and for no one."

"V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love."

"Her love was too cold, like an anti-oven. That's called a freezer, and sometimes it burns food. She gave me heartburn, just like coffee, and it really woke me up to the reality of relationships."

"I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like."

"Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality."

"I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain."

"The action of a soulful person covertly makes many people brave and bold without the need for them to be advised or told."

"Eye can only see something ifidea about it has been in mind."

"The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible."

"Manifestation is a process by which we transform seemingly unrealizable imaginations to reality."

"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."