Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Hatred is settled anger.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

Oh my God – this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

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

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you’re looking for a pediatrician.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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?

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

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

Who wants to leave the door open to being dominated physically by another human being? Jiu Jitsu gives you the ability to not be dominated by that person, and to me, that’s real peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about that when I’m walking around in the world.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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?

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.