Reality Of Life Quotes

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  A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Dream, Determination

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

  Philip K. Dick

  Atheist, Real, Believe

  Valis ch. 5 (1981). Originally appeared in a 1978 lecture by Dick entitled "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart in Two Days." See Paktor 1

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  People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Attitude, Freedom

  "Disturbing the Universe" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 17, (p. 193), 1979.

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Cheer Up, Reality

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Sunday Herald Sun (Australia), January 13, 2003.

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  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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• Reality is not always probable, or likely.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Life, Reality, Probable Cause

  "Worldwide Laws of Life : 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles". Book by John Templeton, 1998.

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• It is not true that if we had true faith we would not be sad. Prophets (as), and righteous people experienced a great deal of sadness. The Quran is full of stories in which the central theme is sadness. Sadness is a reality of life. The Quran is not there to eliminate sadness, but to navigate it. Sadness is one of the tests of life, just as happiness, and anger are tests.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Sadness, Reality, People

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• There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love, Dream, Believe

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.

  Paul Strand

  Real, Cameras, Records

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• Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

  Jean Anouilh

  Art, Mistake, Believe

  Jean Anouilh, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Kitty Black (1961). “The rehearsal: a play in three acts”

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• The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

  Al Meyerhoff

  Reality, Environmental, Toxic

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• I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.

  Matt Chandler

  Christian, Hurt, Lying

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• My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don't pay attention to it when it happens.

  Jonas Mekas

  Reality, Pay, Attention

  Interview with Peter BogdAnOvich, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Reality, Law, Judging

  Benjamin N. Cardozo (2012). “The Nature of the Judicial Process”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• When I feel hurt, I fully experience my emotions (and don't make them anyone else's problem!). Then I question my thoughts, examining my belief system and meeting the reality of life.

  Sarah MacLean

  Hurt, Reality, Belief

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• We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.

  Robin Sharma

  Reality, Giving, Want

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.76, Jaico Publishing House

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• I see rock music as the best example of modernday storytelling that exists in our society. Songs are narratives that help the listeners cope with the reality of life that can't be easily spoken about in everyday conversation. It is a hugely powerful process of helping people find themselves through music.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Song, Powerful, Reality

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• Certain realities of life we only see through eyes cleansed by our tears.

  Pope Francis

  Eye, Reality, Tears

  "Pope Francis’ Silent Response to the Filipino Girl: What He Might Have Been Thinking" by Stafford Betty, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2015.

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• The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Reality, Ideas, Giving

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• I just think that the reality of life is impermanence. That's the foundation of understanding what Yoga is, and we're here for however long we're here, and then it's over. And I've known this since I was a kid.

  Gary Kraftsow

  Yoga, Kids, Reality

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• I'm not sure that my films show the reality of life in Iran; we show different aspects of life. Iran is a very extensive and expansive place, and sometimes, even for us who live there, some of the realities are very hard to comprehend.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Reality, Iran, Different

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Team, Reality, America

  "The Elephant in The Interview" by Jennifer Armintrout, jennytrout.com. December 19, 2014.

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