Reality Quotes

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So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Christopher McCandless

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to 'that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress,' and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

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

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Joyce Carol Oates

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Religion is not a movement stretching out to grasp something, external, tangible, and good, and to possess it. It is a form of being, not having, a mode of life. Spiritual life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced. It is new birth into enlightenment.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

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

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. No other profession is as casual or heedless of reality as ours

Warren E. Burger

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

Lysander Spooner

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Most of people talk, we do things. They plan, we achieve. They hesitate, we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. Dubai is a living example of that

Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum