It’s easier to change your perception of a situation than it is to actually change your situation – this is why so many people are delusional.
Frustrations come because we impose our illusions on reality.
– Osho
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.
– Jodi Picoult
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
– Byron Katie
You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what’s really happening is more important than trying to control people.
– Larry Page
Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It’s really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.
– Aishwarya Rai
I have no words for my reality.
– Max Frisch
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
– Henri Bergson
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
– Henri Bergson
Every single desire can lead to dream and every single dream has possibility to become reality.
– Santosh Kalwar
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
– Yoko Ono
A refusal to face reality allows it to stab you in the back.
– Dr. Idel Dreimer
Sometimes it’s not the person who changes, but the mask that falls off.
There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.
– Marguerite
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration
– Niccolo Machiavelli
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
– Nikos Kazantzakis
Just because you feel it, doesn’t mean it’s real.
– Alan Robert Neal
Spend less time complaining about what’s fair, and more time dealing with what’s real.
– Alan Robert Neal
I repeatedly failed at having him choose reality over delusion. Continued attempts would have been abusive to him, while witnessing his decline would have been abusing myself. The kindest choice was to step away and begin loving him from afar.
– Alan Robert Neal
You can try and redefine reality as much as you like, but you will eventually encounter someone who won’t play along. Even worse, you might not.
– Alan Robert Neal
Candy-coating the truth, to make everyone feel good, deadens people to reality. Dearth of reality melts a society.
– Alan Robert Neal
More times than not, reality doesn’t care what I think.
– Alan Robert Neal
Just because I didn’t like the reality I saw, doesn’t mean I minded seeing it.
– Alan Robert Neal
Okay, who put a “stop payment” on my reality check?
What happens to the wide- eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?
Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.
– Robert Brault
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.
– John Burroughs
I have a very firm grasp on reality! I can reach out and strangle it any time!
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
– Jorge Luis Borges
Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.
– Frank Tyger