Top 100 Live Reality Quotes
#1. Reality and 'what should be' are two brothers who live very far apart.
Gerald Welch
#2. A man today has to live with the reality of today. He can no longer live with the reality of 100 years ago. The world's changing so fast. Unless you are prepared to adapt every day, then you have a problem, because the world's not stopping.
Mario Testino
#4. Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own.
Jason Goodman
#6. The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality.
Mark Ryan
#7. You are always laughing at the wrong moment; you are considered cruel and heartless when in reality you are only tough and durable. But if you would laugh when others laugh and weep when they weep then you must be prepared to die as they die and live as they live.
Henry Miller
#8. Understand me. I'm not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.
Charles Bukowski
#9. We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically. On the other hand, if we know that we are part of an open universe, and that our minds are a matrix of reality, we will live more creatively and powerfully.
Marilyn Ferguson
#10. For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.
Edwidge Danticat
#11. When I ask you to earn money and have a room of your own, I am asking you to live in the presence of reality, an invigorating life, it would appear, whether one can impart it or not.
Virginia Woolf
#12. As for biblical or religious theory, I don't ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message.
Steve Maraboli
#13. I didn't have the luxury of taking reality for granted. And I wouldn't say I hated people who did, because that's just about everyone. I didn't hate them. They didn't live in my world.
But that never stopped me from wishing I lived in theirs.
Francesca Zappia
#15. Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with - to live a more interesting reality than one's daily life.
Steven Rigolosi
#16. Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.
Sam Mendes
#17. We live in a world with an ever-growing population. Personal space these days is at a premium. Physically, we are practically tripping over our fellow man. Mentally and spiritually, the divide among us seems to widen.
Carlos Wallace
#18. It's not about how long you can live , it's about how long you can forget and forgive.
Abdel Halim Boudekhana
#19. 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
#20. The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial: they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.
Laozi
#21. If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life.
Ayrton Senna
#23. The wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.
Elsa Maxwell
#24. It wasn't healthy, my obsession with her, but it felt amazing. I never wanted to be apart from her. I wanted to live in her. Breathe her into me every second of every day, but reality was real, and that wasn't something I could do.
Tabatha Vargo
#25. Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
Mahmoud Darwish
#26. The reality is, what writers write and the way they live can be as different as a lump of coal and a diamond. The written life is shined to a deceptive gloss.
Donald Miller
#27. What is different is not necessarily dangerous, and what is similar is not always secure.
T.F. Hodge
#28. We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself.
Marilynne Robinson
#29. This is the reality of the human heart, the inevitability of two sinful people pledging to live together, with all their faults, for the rest of their lives.
Gary L. Thomas
#30. I think we live in an industrial dimensional reality where we're programmed to believe what we're told. We're programmed to believe them. We're programmed to believe what that ruling class wants us to believe.
John Trudell
#31. If only they could live in the twilight of their dreams, in the tiny moment before the harsh light of reality found them, perhaps they could be happy.
D.A. Henneman
#32. You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history rather than a spectator Father Fernando Cardenal
Barbara Kingsolver
#33. If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
Oscar Wilde
#34. Fairy tales are make believe and reality sucks, but I happen to live in both worlds.
Emily Hodson
#35. Everything changes. That's the universal nature of outer reality and inner experience. Therefore, there's no end to disturbed equilibria as long as you live.
Rick Hanson
#36. I guess I lost my way, there were so many roads. I was living to run, and running to live, never worried about paying or even how much I owed.
Bob Seger
#37. If you don't start going after WHAT YOU WANT, then you will NEVER GET WHAT YOU WANT! Do you want to be on your death bed wondering, 'WHAT IF? WHAT IF I would've quit letting life pass me by and just went for it?!' JUST GO FOR IT! LIVE ALL OUT!
Shay Dawkins
#38. If we can visualize what we read, we own the potential to live that reality,
Daniel Marques
#39. I would rather keep all the levels lower and stick to the sequester, but there are people in leadership who live outside of reality and want to increase things that Republicans like and pretend Democrats don't exist.
Justin Amash
#40. May you one day find the place where your dreams and reality collide.
R.S. Novelle
#41. Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.
Guy Sajer
#43. We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices.
Stephen Covey
#45. The way you see the world is how you live it.
J.R. Rim
#46. No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
Shirley Jackson
#47. Independence is an important, even vital, value and achievement. The problem is, we live in an interdependent reality, and our most important accomplishments require interdependency skills well beyond our present abilities.
Stephen R. Covey
#48. The reality in the neighborhood that I live in is: if I don't constantly reconcile what I have against what other people don't, either I need to leave and be around other people who have what I have, or I'm constantly engaged in this kind of dynamic flow of opportunity and sharing.
Theaster Gates
#49. Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
Andrew Cohen
#50. Time' is the illusional domain occupied by the state of boredom. 'Space' is the infinite - reality - experienced by the state of higher creative consciousness. Choose wisely.
T.F. Hodge
#51. In the world we live, either everyone is stupid or no one is.
Sarvesh Jain
#52. I believe that the astonishingly consistent and nuanced reality of the planetary correlations with the archetypal dynamics of human life is one of the most compelling intimations we have that we live in a meaning-laden and purposeful universe.
Richard Tarnas
#53. The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.
Marcel Proust
#54. The reality that we live in is pulsating with energy and governed by laws. Understanding the basic principles of these patterns enables us to attract the things into our lives which we need and want.
Michelle Carbotte
#55. I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
Hanif Kureishi
#56. The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
Oscar Wilde
#57. Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley
#58. Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.
Fred Barnes
#59. There is no past and future for those who exist in the now. Live in the moment, today is the only reality.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#60. I live in a peculiar world," she said, "in a place where reality ends and a fiction begins. Maybe that's why I love you.
Michael Faudet
#61. You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
Vin Diesel
#62. People ask to much because they live in their own reality. not what reality really is.
Rob Lyon
#63. If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!
Joyce Meyer
#64. We all live in a kind of continuous dream," I told him. "When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we've taken as reality.
Jeff VanderMeer
#65. Reality is the place we need to live, but our imaginations harbor the greatest places to visit!
Giuseppe Bianco
#66. Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done will rather bring about his ruin than his preservation.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#67. Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.
Teresa Mummert
#68. If God is your Father, you can count on the Holy Spirit to open your eyes and illumine His truth. He will burn it into your heart as you read the Bible, ingrain it into your thinking, live it out in obedience, and let Him continually keep you aligned with ultimate reality.
Stephen Kendrick
#69. I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my 'idea of them.
Anais Nin
#70. Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#71. In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?
Masashi Kishimoto
#73. That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.
Nicholas Sparks
#74. To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task
Etty Hillesum
#75. Suddenly, it seems obvious to me: Only fantasy books can make sense of the skewed reality in which I live.
David B.
#76. Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Tom Robbins
#77. We imagine all these postapocalyptic, class-stratified, new-world-order techno-futures. But actually the real world, the world we live in, this is the dystopia.
Elan Mastai
#78. Live in your imagination today, for tomorrow it can become your reality.
Kevin Eikenberry
#79. Most people are lucky enough to have a few electrifying kissing experiences in their lifetimes, which make you believe in God, the reality of soul mates, or at least the power of sexual chemistry [Cram,Cusi, "'One Life to Live' and 14 Beautiful Boys to Kiss," Cafe, January 14, 2015].
Cusi Cram
#80. You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it's a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.
David Grossman
#81. You can't see reality. You never could: You just distort the truth until you end up with a version you can live with.
Michael Lee West
#82. In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.
Tom Peters
#83. I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being.
John Shelby Spong
#84. Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.
John Mayall
#85. The ultimate reality is that God is One. We all live existentially in that oneness of all.
Gian Kumar
#86. Live in your dream. Refuse to wake up until it is completely over. Then dream again.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#87. We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air
Thales
#88. In many ways we are a dream for people, not a reality. That counts in your mind. It shows how much you can touch people, and as much as you can try to give those people somehow it is nothing compared to what they live in their own mind, in their dreams, for you.
Ayrton Senna
#89. It would seem, after this, that even when living upon earth we must live as if in the heavenly kingdom, dwelling there in anticipation by hope. But in reality, for the greater part, the contrary is the case. Men cling with their whole being to the earth and everything earthly.
John Of Kronstadt
#90. So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want ... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?
Chuck Palahniuk
#91. We don't live for realities, but for the fantasies, the dreams of what might be. If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going ... When you are acting, don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your character's future.
Michael Shurtleff
#92. Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His time did not travel; it was a block of persisting nows.
Richard Powers
#93. There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality
Peter Tosh
#94. We spend our lives telling ourselves the story of past and future, while the reality of the present goes largely unexplored. Now we live in ignorance of the freedom and simplicity of consciousness, prior to the arising of thought.
Sam Harris
#95. The reality is, that no matter what you do in this life, it's coming to an end. Once you accept there's nothing that you can do about your own mortality, then you're now free. You have no control, so stop pretending you do. And just get on with living your life. Stop living in fear.
Jeb Corliss
#96. Sometimes it was better not to ever live the fantasy. Because when reality descended, it outlined in stark detail just how much the real world sucked.
Maya Banks
#97. Why are you so anxious to destroy in the name of a vulgar, commonplace sense of truth, this reality which comes to birth attracted and formed by the magic of the stage itself, which has indeed more right to live here than you, since it is much truer than you
if you don't mind my saying so?
Luigi Pirandello
#98. In hindsight, I was totally unprepared for the truth. I will live without my children much longer than I lived with them. That's a difficult reality after submerging twenty years of my life into the responsibilities, joys, and frustrations of raising kids.
Elaine Ambrose
#99. We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.
Nic Pizzolatto
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