#reality

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. ↗

— King Hussein

#boasting #dark #dispel #does #face

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#conscious #consciousness #essential #facts #fertile

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#car #end #get #had #i

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#defined #force #human #human rights #internalized

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#global #humanity #know #men #men and women

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. ↗

— Dean Inge

#favor #make #only #opinion #pass

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#capturing #experience #incommunicable #individual #man

People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#life #morrison #pain #reality #experience

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#escape #freedom #intoxication #reality #freedom

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#emotion #friendship #honesty #imagination #individuality