#reality

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. ↗

— Anais Nin

#action #actions #again #dream #form

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. ↗

— Anais Nin

#i #imagination #many #reality #them

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#accused #being #described #did #free

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it. ↗

— Edward Norton

#acting #always #certain #confused #emotional

The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#beautiful #find #i #idea #movie

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality. ↗

— Candace Parker

#back #best #bring #coming #dad

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#brings #dangerous #grid #kind #living

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#each #other #reality #shaped #thinkers

It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything. ↗

— George Saunders

#answer #bearing #down #everything #freaky

I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process. ↗

— Ted Shackelford

#i #i do #moment #most #process