Reality

"You need persistence in order to maintain the reality that you desire."

"Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?"

"It's not about what you're going to say, but it's about what you're going to do about it."

"Some are imprisoned by their own perception of reality."

"At times, reality is love’s great challenge. When our old stories and dreams are shattered, our first instinct may be to resist, deny, or cling to the way things were. But if we loosen our grip, often what fills the space is a tender forgiveness and the potential for a new and different kind of love."

"I neither revenge nor forgive, I just choose to ignore."

"That living has no value - it's what you do with life that gives it worth."

"Healing from a loss doesn't happen on schedule. You need to give the head and heart time to catch up with the reality."

"Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings."

"We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone."

"Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God."

"The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely seriously."

"I've longed for you so, while my connection to the rest of reality has torn. It is that you have lost me. And I have lost you, longing for more than my enough."

"... he had always wondered why the sensations one felt in dreamas were so much more intense than anything one could experience in waking reality—why the horror was so total and the ecstacy so complete—and what was that extra quality which could never be recaptured afterward; the quality of what he felt when he walked down a path through tangled green leaves in a dream, in an air full of expectation, of causeless, utter rapture—and when he awakened he could not explain it, it had just been a path through some woods."

"I personally feel that the universe behaves more like a song than an equation because math is about static law and music is about dynamic expression."

"Life is a reality."

"Life is a dream. I awake it is a reality."

"Dialogue is about creating awareness through self-observation; it starts from the inside out, not the outside in."

"I think maybe they come out into the grounds in nightwear. But no, in typical anorexic stype they have read the fashion magazines literally. This is their version of thin girls in strappy clothes. The girl in the petticoat talks to me, as Emma has done on occsasion, in a rather grand style, as if she is a 'lady' of some substance and I a visiting guest. Do they chat much about clothes? I ask Emma in the car. She shakes her head. So, does she, Emma, see the difference between underwear or nightwear and 'going out' clothes'Yes,' she says, her voices strained again. 'But it's one of the things you don't know properly when you're ill and confused. You see these pictures and the people in the magazines are real for you."

"Psychologically, our reality derives from the stories we tell ourselves, at least the ones we believe."