The world is not a wish-granting factory.
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.
Do not take life’s experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role.
I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.
Science is the poetry of reality.
There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
The bridge between reality and a dream is work.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a ‘semantic disturbance’ is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.
Life is not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, and it won’t ever be. Do not fall into the trap of feeling like you’re a victim. You are not.
Engineers turn dreams into reality.
You create your own reality.
The future is unwritten.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.
Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.
Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.
Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.