Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

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

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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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Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Dr. Karl Menninger

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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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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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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Moore, George

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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

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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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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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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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

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Bramah, Ernest

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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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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lee, Al

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

Cyril Connolly

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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Smith, Huston

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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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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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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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 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