Reality Quotes - Page 10

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

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Leadership, Stress

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• The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

  Daniel Webster

  Society, World, Appearance

  Daniel Webster, Edwin David Sanborn (1857). “The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster”, p.146, Little, Brown

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• The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Dream, Insomnia

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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

  Virginia Woolf

  Light, Groups, Erratic

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.143

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• Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

  Joyce Cary

  House, Littles, Prison

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• Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

  John Ruskin

  Positive, Art, Fools Day

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• When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

  Byron Katie

  Uplifting, Simple, Meditation

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• We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

  James A. Baldwin

  Truth, Shapes, Betrayed

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

  Jean Rostand

  Lying, Book, Jargon

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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

  Karl A. Menninger

  Inspirational, Honestly, Ideals

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• Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Skills

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Feb 26, 2011

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• This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

  Lord Byron

  Real, Adoration, Ideals

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.115, Xist Publishing

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• Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Fluidity, Discontinuity

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.13, Grove Press

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• I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

  Max Beckmann

  Bridges, Invisible, Seeking

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• It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to the understanding of nature ... In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

  Albert Einstein

  Keys, Law, Giving

  "On the Method of Theoretical Physics". Lecture at the University of Oxford (1933), as quoted in Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 63., p. 237, 1990.

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• Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

  Noel Fielding

  Depressing, World, Needs

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Time, Memories

  John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.48, 谷月社

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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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• In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Work, Learning

  "Va-Va-Voodoo! : Find Love, Make Love & Keep Love". Book by Kathleen Charlotte, Ross Heaven (p. 33), 2007.

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• All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

  Marcel Proust

  Mind, Easy, Activity

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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 A. Kissinger

  Real, Light, Mold

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• The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of Reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

  Eric Gutkind

  Facts, Wonderful, Midst

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• The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

  Shana Alexander

  Eye, Mind, Paradox

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Mean, Facts, Soothing

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