Quotes about Reality

Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality.

Love in practice is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have — and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.

Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.

Instead, we are living inside our own little narrative bubble of the moment, frequently misattributing cause and effect and therefore completely imprisoned in thoughts and emotions that are both inaccurate and misguided.

There will, one day, be an existence for us that will be the ultimate in reality and experience, and we can understand this truth only by faith. What we see by faith is true reality.

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call atheists, and those who think they are facts are religious. Which group really gets the message?

lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."