#reality

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#facts #legends #make #more #reality

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#air #begins #constructs #fiction #givens

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. ↗

— John Ruskin

#ideal #positive #reality #seeking #study

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#cause #leading #leading cause #reality #stress

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#hunch #nothing #reality

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#collective #hunch #just #reality

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#apprehension #harm #more #often #reality

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#best #bring #cannot #doing #else

The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes. ↗

— John Shadegg

#collecting #currently #each #individual #number

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me. ↗

— Shakira

#fame #happen #happens #i #isolates