„When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.“

„Only when your intent and actions are in alignment can you create the reality you desire.“

—  Steve Maraboli 1975

Fonte: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 135

„The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.“

—  Richard Bach American spiritual writer 1936

Fonte: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

„A mind is a psychic pattern through which you interpret and form reality. You have physical limbs that you can see. You have minds that are invisible. Each one can organize reality in a different fashion. Each one deals with its own kind of knowledge. These minds all work together to keep you alive through the physical structure of the brain. When you use all of these minds, then and only then do you become fully aware of your surroundings: You perceive reality more clearly than you do now, more sharply, brilliantly and concisely. At the same time, however, you comprehend it directly.“

—  Jane Roberts American Writer 1929 - 1984

Session 763, Page 41
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (1979)

„Socialism will become reality when the Fatherland is free.“

—  Joseph Goebbels Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister 1897 - 1945

1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)

„Suffering points out that there is falsehood somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality when your falsehoods clash with the truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.“

—  Anthony de Mello Indian writer 1931 - 1987

"Obstacles to Happiness", p. 74
Awareness (1992)
Contexto: Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there's falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere. Suffering points out that there is falsehood somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality when your falsehoods clash with the truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.

„Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.“

—  Zoë Heller British writer 1965

Fonte: Notes On A Scandal

„How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?“

—  Lisa See, livro Peony in Love

Fonte: Peony in Love

„Reality can neither be proved nor disproved. Within the mind you cannot, beyond the mind you need not. In the real, the question ‘what is real?’ does not arise. (…)“

—  Nisargadatta Maharaj Indian guru 1897 - 1981

Reality
Fonte: "I am That." P.94.

„I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk American novelist, essayist 1962

„Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.“

—  C. Terry Warner American writer

Fonte: Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves

„When reality fails you change reality to support your beliefs and ignore the nagging voices in your head that tells you otherwise for they are trying to distract you from the one true God.“

—  James Woods American film, stage and television actor 1947

The Daily Mail, 20 October 2013

„The mind is the reality. You are what you think.“

—  Alfred Bester, livro The Demolished Man

Fonte: The Demolished Man (1953), Chapter 2 (p. 28).

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

—  Bruce Lee Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker 1940 - 1973

„That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it’s also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.“

—  Ernest Cline, livro Jogador Nº 1

Fonte: Ready Player One

„Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.“

—  James Patterson, livro Maximum Ride

Fonte: Max

„He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.“

—  Ayn Rand Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905 - 1982

„Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.“

—  F. Paul Wilson novelist 1946

Fonte: Healer

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

—  Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991

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

„There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.“

—  Patrick Rothfuss, livro O Nome do Vento

Fonte: The Name of the Wind