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Reality Quotes (page 13)

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. Jodi Picoult
The substance of all such paganism may be summarised thus. It is an attempt to reach the divine reality through the imagination alone; in its own field reason does not restrain it at all. It is vital to the view of all history that reason is something separate from religion even in the most rational of these civilisations. It is only as an afterthought, when such cults are decadent or on the defensive, that a few Neo-Platonists or a few Brahmins are found trying to rationalise them, and... Gilbert K. Chesterton
What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings? The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place in the world - a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another... Ben Okri
I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex. Anne Lamott
John Steinbeck quote: "I am happy to report that in the war between reality and..."
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger. John Steinbeck
The icon is transparent as a representation of the special reality it depicts; an idol replaces and obscures that reality ... but the difference between icon and idol is purely subjective. Kathleen Raine
Joseph Chilton Pearce quote: "Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality,..."
Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions Joseph Chilton Pearce
I got to a state where phrases like "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" filled me with a kind of suppressed indignation, because they stood for the big sin of Platonism: the reduction of all reality to the level of pure abstraction, as if concrete, individual substances had no essential reality of their own, but were only shadows of some remote, universal, ideal essence filed away in a big card-index somewhere in heaven, while the demi-urges milled around the Logos piping their excitement... Thomas Merton
Ayn Rand quote: "We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences..."
We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. Ayn Rand
A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. John Steinbeck
Werner Erhard quote: "Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our..."
Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit. Werner Erhard
The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion. Tom Robbins
Haruki Murakami quote: "I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality..."
I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind. Haruki Murakami
But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams Anne Rice
it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over. Haruki Murakami

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