Reality Quotes

To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you, to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions of your ego.

~ Oli Anderson

If you doubt your sanity, is that proof?

~ James Qualls

Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.

~ Oli Anderson

Be real! Fake and phony people never grow.. - Sivaprakash Sidhu

~ Sivaprakash Sidhu

The memories: they are the reality.

~ Stephen King

Dialogue unplugs you from your own programming as you become more real, debate turns up the voltage and entrenches you more deeply.

~ Oli Anderson

Psychologically, our reality derives from the stories we tell ourselves, at least the ones we believe.

~ Matthew D. Lieberman

I think maybe they come out into the grounds in nightwear. But no, in typical anorexic stype they have read the fashion magazines literally. This is their version of thin girls in strappy clothes.The girl in the petticoat talks to me, as Emma has done on occsasion, in a rather grand style, as if she is a 'lady' of some substance and I a visiting guest.Do they chat much about clothes? I ask Emma in the car.She shakes her head.So, does she, Emma, see the difference between underwear or nightwear and 'going out' clothes?'Yes,' she says, her voices strained again. 'But it's one of the things you don't know properly when you're ill and confused. You see these pictures and the people in the magazines are real for you.

~ Carol Lee

Dialogue is about creating awareness through self-observation; it starts from the inside out, not the outside in.

~ Oli Anderson

Life is a dream. I awake it is a reality.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a reality.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

... he had always wondered why the sensations one felt in dreamas were so much more intense than anything one could experience in waking reality—why the horror was so total and the ecstacy so complete—and what was that extra quality which could never be recaptured afterward; the quality of what he felt when he walked down a path through tangled green leaves in a dream, in an air full of expectation, of causeless, utter rapture—and when he awakened he could not explain it, it had just been a path through some woods.

~ Ayn Rand

I've longed for you so, while my connection to the rest of reality has torn. It is that you have lost me. And I have lost you, longing for more than my enough.

~ Brandi Gomez

The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely seriously.

~ Iain M. Banks

Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.

~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Dialogue isn’t a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room, it is a collaboration to find the truth.

~ Oli Anderson

We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.

~ Oli Anderson

Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings.

~ Oli Anderson

Healing from a loss doesn't happen on schedule.You need to give the head and heart time to catch up with the reality.

~ Drishti Bablani

Loving a person doesn’t make them who you desire, it makes you vulnerable to their reality.

~ Abby Fabiaschi

That living has no value - it's what you do with life that gives it worth.

~ Michael J. Sullivan

I neither revenge nor forgive, I just choose to ignore.

~ Irfa Rahat

At times, reality is love’s great challenge. When our old stories and dreams are shattered, our first instinct may be to resist, deny, or cling to the way things were. But if we loosen our grip, often what fills the space is a tender forgiveness and the potential for a new and different kind of love.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Some are imprisoned by their own perception of reality.

~ Steven Redhead

It's not about what you're going to say, but it's about what you're going to do about it.

~ Jayson Engay

Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?

~ Slavoj Žižek

You need persistence in order to maintain the reality that you desire.

~ Steven Redhead

Imagination is more important than knowledge”, with due respect to Mr. Einstein, I beg to differ! “Imagination is not possible without knowledge.

~ I Are

An unbearable reality, combined with the impossibility to change it, tends to lead to abstractions for abstraction's sake, and unreality becomes more realistic than reality itself, more true, more convincing, simply because it looks at you with the eyes of justice.

~ Romain Gary

The only way to see true reality is in solitude. One of the tragedies of human existence is that reality cannot be shared. What's real to you may not be to someone else.

~ Tristan Jones

There is no such thing as, I trust you a little or I trust you a lot. You either trust, or you do not.

~ Mark W Boyer

It is OK to say 'no'.It is OK to say 'I will think about it'.It is OK to say 'I will try'.It is NOT OK to make promises you cannot keep.

~ Izey Victoria Odiase

Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true.

~ Ivanka Trump

Nature is sound in many forms and states of existence.

~ João Mendes

Don't go out of your way to correct a false assumption if it plays to your advantage.

~ Ivanka Trump

The world nowadays is so perverted. Some people think I'm insane only because they don't understand my point of view.

~ Mario Fingarov

I would dream of a place, a place to shelter all my madness.

~ J. Limbu

Truth is elusive, subtle, manysided. You know, Priscilla, there’s an old Hindu story about Truth. It seems a brash young warrior sought the hand of a beautiful princess. Her father, the king, thought he was a bit too cocksure and callow. He decreed that the warrior could only marry the princess after he had found Truth. So the warrior set out into the world on a quest for Truth. He went to temples and monasteries, to mountaintops where sages meditated, to remote forests where ascetics scourged themselves, but nowhere could he find Truth. Despairing one day and seeking shelter from a thunderstorm, he took refuge in a musty cave. There was an old crone there, a hag with matted hair and warts on her face, the skin hanging loose from her bony limbs, her teeth yellow and rotting, her breath malodorous. But as he spoke to her, with each question she answered, he realized he had come to the end of his journey: she was Truth. They spoke all night, and when the storm cleared, the warrior told her he had fulfilled his quest. ‘Now that I have found Truth,’ he said, ‘what shall I tell them at the palace about you?’ The wizened old creature smiled. ‘Tell them,’ she said, ‘tell them that I am young and beautiful.

~ Shashi Tharoor

I had seen the world as either white or black.It is only when I read the pages of her diary that I understood why the sky looked so grey.

~ Sanhita Baruah

In reality, love is fluid; it’s a verb, not a noun.

~ Sharon Salzberg