"If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system."
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"I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey."
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"You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, and your intentions create your reality."
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"Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality."
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"It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality."
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"The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization is built upon its words. In no other book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom, reality, and hope."
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"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."
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"I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing."
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"I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me."
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"The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility."
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"The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature."
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"I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality."
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"In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things."
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"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
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"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
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"Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality."
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"All realities, all dimensions are open to me!"
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"I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities."
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"I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are."
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"As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture."
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