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“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Fear always accompanies the making of art, generated by the shock of seeing an idea taking its form. A sculpture in the mind is safe and secure--the actual work rarely behaves as intended.”
― Andy Goldsworthy, Passage

“We all have a spiritual connection to certain individuals, which transcends the mental and physical illusions of this experience we call life. It cannot be forgotten, even if we refuse to interact with those people concerned. This connection is true love, and nothing we say or do can break it.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“We find ourselves in a historical moment of pervasive mediocrity. Fuelled by basic human drives - flights from death and boredom - the new technologies, bright and all consuming, increasingly blur the lines between direct experience and representation. A photograph of an apple is not food and the Internet has neither scent nor texture.”
― Jonathan Simons, The Analog Sea Review: Number One

“If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.”
― W. I. Thomas

“Women dream in courtship, but wedlock wakes them.”
― Martine Bailey, A Taste for Nightshade

“When one looks at the all-prevailing schizophrenia of democratic societies, the lies that have to be told for vote-catching purposes, the silence about major issues, the distortions of the press, it is tempting to believe that in totalitarian countries there is less humbug, more facing of the facts. There, at least, the ruling groups are not dependent on popular favour and can utter the truth crudely and brutally. Goering could say ‘Guns before butter’, while his democratic opposite numbers had to wrap the same sentiment up in hundreds of hypocritical words.

Actually, however, the avoidance of reality is much the same everywhere, and has much the same consequences. The Russian people were taught for years that they were better off than everybody else, and propaganda posters showed Russian families sitting down to an abundant meal while the proletariat of other countries starved in the gutter. Meanwhile the workers in the western countries were so much better off than those of the U.S.S.R. that non-contact between Soviet citizens and outsiders had to be a guiding principle of policy. Then, as a result of the war, millions of ordinary Russians penetrated far into Europe, and when they return home the original avoidance of reality will inevitably be paid for in frictions of various kinds. The Germans and the Japanese lost the war quite largely because their rulers were unable to see facts which were plain to any dispassionate eye.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.”
― George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950

“He felt removed from reality.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“Too often people make their social media image more important than being true to who they really are in real life. Wonder how much different our world would be if we all strived to be the same person offline as we are online.”
― Germany Kent

“Caution: Drinking is not good for the phone and Twitter.”
― Amit Abraham

“I never dreamed this day would come,
or imagined this would manifest,
but now that this is my reality,
that we can change a world,
I embrace the dream.”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“During the course of my medical treatment, I went from believing the medical profession were going to cure me to the reality that they were probably going to kill me.”
― Steven Magee

“Everything is an opinion until one strives to make it their own reality -- and vice-versa at times too.”
― Andy Harglesis

“The reality of the gospel is greater than reason.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Reason is good but reality is greater.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“anything is possible but probably not that”
― Jordan Peterson

“To create the new we must first de-create the old; and the reality of decreation (as Stevens called it, borrowing the word from Simone Weil) is as strong as the reality of creation.”
― Helen Vendler, Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire

“God has a special way of making dreams come true. Believe, go for it and watch your dream become a reality.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“Every moment of attention we spend scrolling through social media is attention spent making money for someone else. The numbers are staggering: a New York Times analysis calculated that as of 20414, Facebook users were spending a collective 39,757 years' worth of attention on the site, every single day. It's attention that we didn't spend on our families, or our friends, or ourselves. And just like time, once we've spent attention, we can never get it back.

This is a really big deal, because our attention is the most valuable thing we have. We experience only what we pay attention to. We remember only what we pay attention to. When we decide what to pay attention to in the moment, we are making a broader decision about how we want to spend our lives.”
― Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

“Reality is at least a billion trillions times less malleable than our desires.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Åšwiat przypatruje siÄ™ wielkiemu widowisku walki i Å›mierci, które zresztÄ… trudno mu sobie wyobrazić, bo obraz wojny jest nieprzekazywalny. Ani piórem, ani gÅ‚osem, ani kamerÄ…. Wojna jest rzeczywistoÅ›ciÄ… tylko dla tych, którzy tkwiÄ… w jej zakrwawionym, wstrÄ™tnym, brudnym wnÄ™trzu. Dla innych jest stronicÄ… książki, obrazem na ekranie, niczym wiÄ™cej.”
― Ryszard KapuÅ›ciÅ„ski, Another Day of Life

“Love is finding something you can't live without. Pain is losing that something.”
― Isaac Tillman

“The Pure. It was all a fairy tale, something to give people hope. Real hope. Without it, they mightn't have held out for so long. They might've stopped fighting altogether. Yeah, just a fairy tale. There were no such things as angels, but the demons were very real.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

“What is real never changes.”
― Vivian Amis

“They couldn't see how maddening death really was, how colossally pointless in every way.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Specials

“...As Joe walked back to them, he heard the cow elk gurgle and settle into the grass on top of her calf.

"This is what wolves do," Joe said, his voice calm, a betrayal of what he felt. "I'm not saying they shouldn't be here, but this is what they do. They're wolves. I know it sounds real nice to say they're magical and beautiful and they balance nature and restore an ecosystem--and it's true, they do that. But this is how they do it. They go after the weakest first. When the mother stays back, the wolves open a hole in her belly and pull out her entrails. Then they wait until she doesn't have the strength to protect herself, then they'll move in and tear her throat out.”
― C.J. Box, Savage Run

“Call it spirituality, scientific investigation, enlightenment or atheism, there exists an actual reality.”
― Anand Damani

“Objectivity of truth, reality, facts, data - they matter; otherwise, you have the 'good guys', the moral persons, in the name of what they call justice, in a fight against what they call injustice, unwittingly adopting the roles of oppressors by persecuting the innocent.”
― Criss Jami

“There are degrees of reality: Sitting inside a train is a reality, but opening the door and watching outside while the train is in motion is a more advanced-degree reality!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“They hated me, because they knew from birth that i m bigger than them.”
― Nkahloleng Eric Mohlala