Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Dr. Karl Menninger

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

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Ellen Herman

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.

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

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Dick, Philip K.

Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Albert Einstein

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Philip K. Dick

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

Rostand, Jean

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Jane Wagner

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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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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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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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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 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

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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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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 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 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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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Smith, Huston

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

Hob Broun

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

Moore, George

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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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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 is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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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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I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.