Motivational Quotes

Reality

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

- Moore, George

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Chopra, Deepak

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Moore, George

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.

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Trilling, Lionel

Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems --but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Pancoast, Mal

Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Lily Tomlin

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

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

Bhagavad Gita

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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Weil, Simone

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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Dick, Philip K.

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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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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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor

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

Bramah, Ernest

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

Hob Broun

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All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's reality. That's happened. No changing the past.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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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, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed: No thanks.

Ellen Herman

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Jane Wagner

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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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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand.

Kohler, Wolfgang

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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

Smith, Huston

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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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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

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.