I remember a psychiatrist once telling me that I gamble in order to escape the reality of life, and I told him that’s why everyone does everything.Norm MacDonald
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?Plato
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?John Lennon
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.Earl Nightingale
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?J.K. Rowling
People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.Jim Morrison
You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people's pockets - and I've driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.John Kennedy
Everybody fights for money, of course, but I wanted to leave a legacy when I retired, get my name in the history. I don't think like that anymore. When I lost the belt, I saw how reality is. Champion means nothing.Jose Aldo
I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.Adam Ant
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.Bodhidharma
My personal feeling is that ultra-high frame rates and ultra-vivid giant screen movies can be like a window onto reality. And if you recognize it as such, you can write your screenplay, direct your movie, edit it, and present it as a live experience - not like a movie.Douglas Trumbull
Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.Peter McWilliams
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.Henry David Thoreau
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.Samuel Johnson