Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Moore, George

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

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

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

Lily Tomlin

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Ellen Herman

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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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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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

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

Lee, Al

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

Philip K. Dick

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Cyril Connolly

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Albert Einstein

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Jane Wagner

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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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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Lee, Bruce

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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