Motivational Quotes

Reality

Reality is something you rise above.

- Liza Minnelli

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

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

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

Ellen Herman

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Albert Einstein

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

Hob Broun

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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 something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Smith, Huston

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lee, Al

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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

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Jane Wagner

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Cyril Connolly

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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.