Motivational Quotes

Reality

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

- Dale, Arbie M.

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Hesse, Hermann

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Garrison Keillor

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

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Smith, Huston

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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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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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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Lee, Al

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

Jane Wagner

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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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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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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Philip K. Dick

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ellen Herman

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

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

Cyril Connolly

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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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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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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Bramah, Ernest

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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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 leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

Camus, Albert

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

Lincoln, Abraham