Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Weil, Simone

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

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Cyril Connolly

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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 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 is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Dick, Philip K.

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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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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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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Jane Wagner

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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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 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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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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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 is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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

Lee, Al

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Garrison Keillor

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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 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

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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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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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.