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

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

Moore, George

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Rostand, Jean

Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lily Tomlin

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Albert Einstein

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Trilling, Lionel

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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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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Smith, Huston

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