Reality Quotes

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
Lauryn Hill

Mother, Strong, Living

Reality is a sliding door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth, Fiction, Obscures

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

Pain, Enjoy, Sometimes

In reality, I never want to grow up.
Michael Jordan

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw

Art, Unbearable

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature, Truth, Art

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion, Point, Nor

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney

Design, Place, Wonderful

Our intention creates our reality.
Wayne Dyer

Intention, Creates

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Napoleon Hill

Thought, Beginning, Ideas

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Andy Warhol

Love, Two, Between

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Hurt, Often, Suffer

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.
Chaim Potok

Family, Home, Small

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
Albert Camus

Revolution, Give, Thought

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert Camus

Evil, Cannot, Virtue

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.
Steve Jobs

Business, Different, Used

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William James

Change, Future, Bad

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston

Best, Yourself, Expect

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love, Truth, Heart

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
Ayn Rand

Work, Keep, Means

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais Nin

Try, Free, Ways

Few people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Schuller

Hope, Today, Tomorrow

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland

Dreams, Time, Death

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill

Dreams, Power, Alone

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
Les Brown

Someone, Become, Else

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz

Love, Romantic, Someone

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
Siobhan Fahey

Depression, Reason, Lose

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
Bodhidharma

Mind, Understand, Study

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