Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Lee, Al

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Hob Broun

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

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Moore, George

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Rostand, Jean

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Garrison Keillor

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

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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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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Ellen Herman

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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Jane Wagner

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

Lee, Al

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

Eliot, George

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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 is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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 self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Bramah, Ernest

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

Weil, Simone

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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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