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We’re making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

—Tom Robbins

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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

—Jane Wagner

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It is my opinion that humans are largely what they make of themselves; in other words, "human nature" is not so much an empirical reality as a process of self-construction. This means that if people become what they think they are, what they think they are is exceedingly important.

—Linda Marie Fedigan

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Right livelihood is not just a philosophical ideal. It is a practical, achievable reality. Finding and maintaining right livelihood does require regular, consistent action, but the steps are clear and the results immediate.

—Claude Whitmyer

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Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

—Cary Grant

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

—Golda Meir

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

—Pablo Picasso

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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

—William Ralph Inge

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People rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Longest Ride

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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

—Bertolt Brecht

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

—Jane Wagner

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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

—Alex Haley

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True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

—Torquato Tasso

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If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

—Hazel Henderson

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