Quotes about Reality

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.

If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.

It is tempting to remain in the comfortable theater of the imagination instead of the real world, to fall in love with the idea of becoming a saint and loving God and neighbor instead of doing the actual work, because the idea makes no demands on you.

Right Response to Reality—the Three R's—is the fundamental principle of morality, of sanctity, and of sanity.

The ultimate reason we must become holy is that that is the only way to become real.

Dostoyevsky says, "love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams" (The Brothers Karamazov).

Expect the world to be Heaven, and it will feel like Hell. Expect it to be Purgatory, and it will feel like Heaven. The two most salient facts about Purgatory are pain and hope, suffering and meaning.

The only honest reason for anyone ever to believe anything is that it is true, that it is really there.

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