#reality

Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result ↗

— Anne Brontë

#happiness #love #marriage #reality-of-life #sorrows

A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls. ↗

— Daniel H. Wilson

#death

You couldn't hide from bad things and pretend they didn't exist–that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted. ↗

— Sarah Cross

#fantasy #kill-me-softly #reality #sarah-cross #dreams

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#dreams #inspirational #philosophical #reality #dreams

Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#dreams #lucidity #reality #dreams

But that is what life is all about, he said. "It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#life #reality #dreams

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#dream #reality #dreams

If you are reading this Libellus, you are a Dreamer, whether you have recognized this or not. Being a Dreamer carries responsibility, one most people are not willing to accept. Responsibility implies that one cannot blame another person for their actions, effectively avoiding causality. However, this is futile and childish to consider. If you are a Dreamer, you are creating the Waking Dream around you. If your life is good, it is because you have made it so and if it is bad, it is because you have made it so. No one else is responsible for your life other than you. ↗

— Michael Hibbard

#dreamers #life #philosophy #reality #dreams

I learned a long, long time ago, that I could accomplish things in this place we call reality and yet still spend most of my time in the better reality of my mind. ↗

— Kevin Walker

#poetry #reality #dreams

This life is our shared dream. We all may meet again in reality. ↗

— Toba Beta

#reality #shared-dream #truth #dreams