Motivational Quotes

Reality

Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Reality

No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Stevens, Wallace

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Cocteau, Jean

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

Bramah, Ernest

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

It takes only one other person to say it's so-one other point of reality to make something real.

Pancoast, Mal

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

Ballard, J. G.

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What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

Woolf, Virginia

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There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Henry Kissinger

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The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.

Kennedy, John F.

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Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

Miller, Henry

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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Hesse, Hermann

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Wilde, Oscar

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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Weil, Simone

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Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.

Mary Chase

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Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. what we take to be true is our reality.

Zukav, Gary

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The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.

Sales, Raoul De

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Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Dick, Philip K.

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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Lincoln, Abraham

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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.

Birkman, Roger

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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Chopra, Deepak

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The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Stevens, Wallace

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Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Ringer, Robert J.

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

Stein, Ben

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Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Dr. Karl Menninger

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Rostand, Jean

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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Brecht, Bertolt

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You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Lee, Bruce

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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Hob Broun

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People see the world not as it is, but as they are.

Lee, Al

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

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We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Daniels, Victor

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In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Daney, Serge

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Trilling, Lionel

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Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

Josh Lieb