#reality

"Art must take reality by surprise."

"If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality."

"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."

"Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it."

"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."

"The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love."

"Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope."

"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

"He’s right-handed, so I told him to draw his self-portrait with his left hand, because it’d look so ugly it’d look realistic. Since he’s a DC politician, I figured a little reality was needed in his life."

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."

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

"In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first"

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

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

"You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality."

"When a bumptious person can’t satiate oneself with an empty praise from others, s/he may go a step further to organize a get-together to bring all people of own nature under a single roof to meet, deliberate, celebrate, collaborate, greet, treat , appreciate or even felicitate one another."

"I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting."

"Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it."

"The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)"