reality

 


Reality is so interesting that I want to add nothing to it; I always wanted to just record it.

Jan Lukas

task

 

We live in a fantasy world, a  world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Iris Murdoch

imitation

 

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Oscar Wilde

truths

 

All truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Friedrich Nietzsche

enemy

 

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James Baldwin

anxious

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Simone de Beauvoir

stupidity

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

Carl Sagan 

grief

 

I sat with anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.

C.S. Lewis

plants

 

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Rahindranath Tagore

passing

Not everyone is meant to be in your future. Some people are just passing through to teach you lessons in life.

Anonymous

dreams

 
I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us that we've made of them... The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

David Bowie

love

 

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Henry Miller

justice

 

We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

avoid

 

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Ayn Rand

curiosity

 

The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Oscar Wilde

courageous

 

The simple step of a courageous individual is not take part in the lie.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

disturbs

 

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

Carl Sagan

happiness

 

Happiness... not in another place but this place not for another hour but this hour.

Walt Whitman

do not learn

 

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

footfalls

 

Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened.

T. S. Eliot

fool

 

It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they've been fooled.

Mark Twain

no idea

 

Some people have no idea what they're doing and a lot of them are really good at it.

George Carlin

stronger

 

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Charles Dickens

destroy

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury 

educating

 

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Aristotle

less

 

The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance, they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them.

Erasmus

destination

 

My destination is no longer a place... rather a new way of seeing. 

Marcel Proust

deceived

Never be deceived that the rich will permit you to vote away their wealth.

Lucy Parsons

synchronicity

Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.

Carl Jung

injustice

You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

Marcus Aurelius 

crying

 

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

peace

 

may peace prevail on earth and in me

place

In the silent place where loneliness is found I'll wander through the open door to look for you.

Françoise Hardy, If You Listen

define

 

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Audre Lorde

mirroring

The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance - is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light.

James Baldwin

blindness

 

Cataract is the third biggest cause of blindness. Religion and politics remain the first two.

Anonymous

present

 

The present is all we have to live in. Or to lose.

Marcus Aurelius

superstition

 

If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle.

Thomm Quackenbush 

important

The most important think is that you love what you are doing, and the second is that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead.

Charles Eames

camera

 

The camera is like a typewriter, in the sense in which you can use the machine to write a love letter, a book, or a business memo.

Duane Michals

peace

 

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Thich Nhat Hanh

law

 

In times of war, the law falls silent.

Cicero

time

 

Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept something that your mind already knows.

Paulo Coelho

eye

 

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

Gregory Maguire

privilege

 

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius (attributed to)

problem

The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell 

remember

 

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.

Chuck Palahniuk

happiness

 

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.

Jack Kerouac

deception

 

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinons.

Leonardo Da Vinci

experience

 

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley