The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
~Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
“What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.”
~ Dogen
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
~Democritus
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality above all else is a variable. With a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
~Margaret Halsey, No Laughing Matter
“Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.”
– William James
