Motivational Quotes

Reality

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.

- Pirandello, Luigi

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Jane Wagner

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Eliot, George

No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Smith, Huston

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lee, Al

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Trilling, Lionel

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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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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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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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One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.

Bell, Marvel

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Hob Broun

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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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Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Bramah, Ernest