Reality
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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?
Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.
Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
Building a sports power is a patriotic undertaking aimed at translating into reality the plan and wish of the great leaders, who devoted their efforts to building ours into a country that prospers and grows stronger on the strength of sports.
In reality, victims of human trafficking are often left voiceless and completely unseen by society.
I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates my life and my writing in a very natural way. I don't even think about it.
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.