"It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable."
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"Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will."
"My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was on a reality show."
"But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first."
"It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English."
"We all have brains and we're all really smart people, but the underlying reality is that we're really just animals and sometimes animal instinct takes over your capability to really think things through."
"You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is an apple of discord between us. If the reality were required, what should we do? How should we feel? My dear cousin, abandon your scheme of marriage - forget it."
"For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new."
"Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing."
"Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out beyond Internet search, but I think the expectations won't live up to reality."
"Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality."
"It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality."
"The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?"
"The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality."
"Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality."
"Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark."
"The reality of it is you have to be over the top if you want to be noticed."
"Divine favor causes you to rise to the top in your sphere of influence, and the reality is that favor can be recognized more easily is your start at the bottom."
"In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean."
"Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality."