“It’s impeccable how brutal the truth can be at times. You can only admire it. Usually, we walk around constantly believing ourselves. I’m okay, we say. I’m alright. But sometimes the truth arrives on you, and you can’t get it off. That’s when you realize that sometimes it isn’t even an answer - it’s…”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“We attract to ourselves what we hold inside. Every circumstance, every person, and every situation that we attract and experience is based on what is inside of us. Your life is a reflection of what you hold inside you, and what you hold inside you is always under your control.”— Rhonda Byrne, amazon.com
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”— Seneca, twitter.com
“Human awareness extracts geometry as a perceptual experience. Reality is possibilities for shapes and forms.”— Deepak Chopra, twitter.com
“If your brain hallucinates your perceptual reality , then the brain itself should be a hallucination produced by other brains.”— Deepak Chopra, twitter.com
“It's a good time for everyone to remove the denial blinders from their eyes and prepare themselves for what awaits.”— Shakira Sison, twitter.com
“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.”— Lynda Barry, amazon.com
“Nothing that happened in one's so called 'virtual life' can ever be fully disconnected from what happened in your so called 'real life'.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Ultimately, selfhood and relationships and experiences and FIFA playing and whatever else are varying degrees of real rather than simply real or not.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Usually we're only half conscious of the way thoughts direct our life; we're lost in thoughts as if they're reality.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“Sleep is confusing. Dreams are baffling. The concept of transitioning from one perceived reality to another is a tolerated madness.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.com