Motivational Quotes

Reality

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.

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Cyril Connolly

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

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

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

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

Smith, Huston

Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Moore, George

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

Lee, Al

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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 leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Jane Wagner

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ellen Herman

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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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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Weil, Simone

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

Lee, Bruce

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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 is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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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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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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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Philip K. Dick

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Dick, Philip K.

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Chopra, Deepak