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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
— Stephen Covey
Anybody that's been in Indiana for five minutes knows that Hoosier hospitality is not a slogan, it's a reality.
— Mike Pence
For those whose faith has faded, the reasons may be real to them, but these reasons do not change the reality of what Joseph Smith restored.
— James Faust
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is real, and death is the illusion.
— Mary Baker Eddy
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
— Vernon Howard
Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?
— Ernest Hemingway
Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.
— Rob Bell
There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.
— Thomas Merton
The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.
— William Saroyan
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.
— CS Lewis
The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.
— CS Lewis