Motivational Quotes

Reality

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.

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Philip K. Dick

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Rostand, Jean

Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Garrison Keillor

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Moore, George

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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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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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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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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Smith, Huston

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

Jane Wagner

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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 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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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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 in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Weil, Simone

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

Ellen Herman

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Eliot, George

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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 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