#reality

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies. ↗

— James Wolcott

#every #filling #idealistic #instead #leaving

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#notion #reality #village #world

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#baby #emotional #feel #first #first time

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#harder #kill #phantom #reality #than

When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#meditation #mind #reality #remorse #thinking

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it. ↗

— Malcom X

#does #face #face reality #matter #patriotism

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress. ↗

— Lois Wyse

#attractive #becomes #dress #find #green

Truth is exact correspondence with reality. ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#exact #reality #truth #truth is

When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available. ↗

— Tina Yothers

#anything #available #begun #could #dance

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#following #idea #leader #must #reality