There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Seneca – Suffering, Reality
Reality isn’t a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you – your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.
Deepak Chopra – Reality, Choice
I’ve continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I’ve learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.
Anthony Robbins – Dream, Change, Reality
For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
Gaston Bachelard – Imagination, Reality
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Goethe – Art, Reality
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
James Baldwin – Reality, Destruction
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems – but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
salman Rushdie – Reality
What the world supplies to myth is an historical reality, defined . . . by the way in which men have produced or used it; and what myth gives in return is a natural image of this reality.
Myth and reality
If we are writing, it means that we are not acting. That we find ourselves in difficulty when we are faced with reality, and so we have chosen another way to react, another way to communicate, a certain distance, a time for reflection.
