#reality

That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes) ↗

— Ally Condie

#life #reality #dreams

If you are strong enough as a couple, reality shows can be a good thing for the relationship. ↗

— Giuliana Rancic

#couple #enough #good #good thing #reality

For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea.* Suddenly there were people who believed that everything was made of atoms; that human beings and other animals had sprung from simpler forms; that diseases were not caused by demons or the gods; that the Earth was only a planet going around the Sun. And that the stars were very far away. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#greece #ionia #knowledge #learning #reality

The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#nihilism #philosophy #post-modernism #reality #truth

But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was an effect of the distance between them becoming less and less tolerable with each passing day, since as we grow old - for every now and then one must, yes, look reality in the eye and call things by their proper names - we feel more keenly the need to have the person we love beside us. ↗

— Andrea Camilleri

#love #reality-check #love

Don't set the alarm clock if you're not ready to wake up. i.e. Never make somebody fall for you if later on you'll just ignore them. ↗

— Hannah Mae Bencio

#love #lovers #lovers-quarrels #reality-check #relationships

I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality. ↗

— Sarah Mally

#christian-living #girls #marriage #parental-guidance #purity

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ↗

— Les Brown

#does #opinion #other #people #reality

Can't look at the damage that's been done, it's not healthy. Have to look ahead of it. Can't change what I've done, only what I'm gonna do. ↗

— Jordan Ghere

#hope #inspirational #life #living #pain

And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: "It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#childhood-memories #inspirational-life #inspirational-persona #inspirational-quotes #letting-go-of-childhood