A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

A woman who would steal your love when your love is all you really have isnt much of a woman.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

I do this real moron thing, it's called thinking, and I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Real friends stab you in the front.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.