Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Bramah, Ernest

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

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

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

Dick, Philip K.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Hob Broun

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

Moore, George

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Weil, Simone

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

Ellen Herman

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 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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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Eliot, George

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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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 merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Lee, Al

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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