Quotes about Reality

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it's an illusory sense of control.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

The myth of my solitude makes me laugh.

In Washington, you have imaginary problems, and they can't even solve the imaginary problems.

I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction.

There are two kinds of love: the love that is and the love that isn't.

But many of the conceptual constructs that we employ in scientific and in philosophical thought concern objects such as black holes and quarks in physics, and God, spirits, and souls in metaphysics. These are objects about which it is of fundamental importance to ask about their existence in reality.

The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

The Disaster of Negative Thinking. The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The subconscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage, or faith.