Reality

"To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have."

"What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced"

"Life is not fair, get used to it"

"He was good and then really good and then bad and then really bad, but since he was good I got lost in the thought that I could fix it."

"Sometimes love them more than you, but just make sure you love yourself too."

"Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing."

"The pale fabric of reality has so many hidden pockets that we can find some change in here somewhere - you just have to dig a little deeper to avoid the chewing gum and past mistakes."

"Love is reality without judgement"

"One is often unconsciously surrounded by one’s own personal reality"

"Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs—and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again."

"Our perception could either be our path to nirvana or an invisible cage that bottles us up."

"A funeral is like a little game, really. You have to just play along and say the right thing and behave the right way until it’s over. Be pleasant but don’t smile too much; be sad but don’t overdo it or the family will feel worse than they already do. Be hopeful but don’t let your optimism be taken as a lack of empathy or an inability to deal with the reality. Because if anybody was to be truly honest there would be a lot of arguments, finger-pointing, tears, snot, and screaming."

"It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a single nebula whose truth is indecipherable."

"How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure."

"I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me."

"it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them)."

"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."

"Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life?People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succeed (the future). Very simply, they get overtaken by those who continually strive to be better than they are."

"What is reality today was but a dream and an imagination not that long ago."

"When I said confront, I meant that you need to confront the reality of your situation. You've made certain choices over your time here, and only you know why you made them. All of that, all of those decisions, have led you to where you are now."