#reality

"Everyone is different from each other, but that doesn’t mean everyone should be indifferent to each other."

"It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces."

"This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!"

"Future is one of the wildest experiences that you will ever have."

"Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit."

"There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations"

"I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real is like."

"An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, “Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need."

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

"One person's craziness is another person's reality."

"[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)"

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."

"There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality."

"I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet our energy needs must also deal responsibly with environmental issues, including the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions."

"Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives."

"The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ..."

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

"[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion."

"Change your thoughts to change your reality."

"I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?"