Reality Quotes - Page 3

• Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

  M. C. Escher

  Art, Ceilings, Awareness

  "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher, 1981.

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• Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Imagination, Enough

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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.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Real, Believe, Yesterday

  Luigi Pirandello, John Linstrum, Joseph Farrell (2004). “Six characters in search of an author”, A&C Black

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• Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Everything you can imagine is real.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Art

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• The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

  James A. Michener

  Life, Dream, Confusion

  James A. Michener (2014). “The Drifters: A Novel”, p.59, Dial Press

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• A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

  Yoko Ono

  Friendship, Inspiring, Leadership

  Twitter post from Jun 08, 2015

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• Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

  Guy Finley

  World, Wave, Passing

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Oct 30, 2016

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

  George A. Moore

  Love, Running, Dream

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• I reject your reality and substitute my own.

  Adam Savage

  Intelligence, Fierce, Substitutes

  Twitter post from Oct 21, 2013

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• There are no facts, only interpretations.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Encouraging, Witty, Truth

  Notebooks, Summer 1886 - Fall 1887.

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• You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Doe, Add, World Literature

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• Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Vision, Moments

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• Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Men, Saws, Wells

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.889, Ballantine Books

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• Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

  Roland Barthes

  Painting

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• Reality is all that which can affect one.

  Eli Siegel

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• Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Mind, Distinction

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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• Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

  Laozi

  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

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• Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Real, Should Have

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

  Pablo Picasso

  Darkness, Found, Lightness

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• The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Media, World

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan”

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• We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  World, Thinker

  Joseph Chilton Pearce (2002). “The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality”, p.63, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• In your world everything must have a beginning and an end. If it does not, you call it eternal. In my view, there is no such thing as beginning and end - these are all related to time. Timeless being is entirely in the now. Being and not-being alternate and their reality is momentary. The immutable Reality lies beyond space and time.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Time, Lying, Views

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