Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Kennedy, John F.

Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Jane Wagner

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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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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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

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

Hob Broun

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Smith, Huston

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Eliot, George

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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Lee, Al

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

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Dick, Philip K.

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Ellen Herman

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

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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham