Top 100 Living Reality Quotes
#2. The IKEA spirit is strong and living reality. Simplicity in our behavior gives us strength. Simplicity and humbleness characterize us in our relations with each others, our suppliers and our customers.
Ingvar Kamprad
#3. How much would you give to make your dream a living reality? Use the time you have.
J.R. Rim
#4. Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.
Otto Dix
#5. We have been impossible right from the beginning and we must continue to be impossible because we are raising a voice against suffering which has been considered to be the nature of life. It is our joy to be considered impossible - and it is our greater joy to make the impossible a living reality.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#6. Devotion means your limited entity has been dissolved; a much larger possibility has become a living reality for you.
Jaggi Vasudev
#7. Freedom has only the meaning with which men endow it. It is not enough to pay lip service to the concept of religious liberty. We must pay heart service to it as well, else it remains an empty phrase instead of a living reality.
Kenneth Keating
#8. To illustrate: Everybody in the world knows the word "God," but there are few people in the world who know God. For most of us God has remained a word, a term, a power outside the self; God, Itself, has not become a living reality except to those few people who are known as mystics.
Joel S. Goldsmith
#9. Most people don't inhabit a living reality, but a conceptualized one.
Eckhart Tolle
#10. From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.
Paulo Coelho
#11. People who carry in their hearts a strong conviction concerning the living reality of the Almighty and their accountability to Him for what they do with their lives are far less likely to become enmeshed in problems that inevitably weaken society.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#12. Nourishing spirituality means cultivating the inward space, the basis of which all things can be brought together. It means overwhelming deadness and stagnation and living reality in terms of values, inspiration, and symbols of higher meaning.
Leonardo Boff
#14. Not until you surrender does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy you emanate and that then runs your life is of a much higher vibrational frequency than the mind energy that still runs the world.
Eckhart Tolle
#15. Feeling is never invisible; it takes shape and manifests as form everywhere in nature. Nature can, therefore, be viewed as feeling unfurled, a living reality in front of us and amidst us.
Andreas Weber
#16. Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.
Cordell Hull
#17. I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of living reality. It is better to look, look again, and keep on looking.
Keith Shackleton
#18. Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better remain unwritten. They would at least never become works of art.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#19. The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)
Gay Hendricks
#20. The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality.
Jean Cocteau
#21. Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea for you, hold that idea in your mind.
Frederick Lenz
#22. A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere.
Mary Robinson
#23. Until you practice surrender, the spiritual dimension is something you read about, talk about, get excited about, write books about, think about, believe in - or don't, as the case may be. It makes no difference. Not until you surrender does it become a living reality in your life.
Eckhart Tolle
#24. Your Promised Land is the place where God's personalized promises over your life become a living reality rather than a theological theory.
Beth Moore
#25. One of the main ways we move from abstract knowledge about God to a personal encounter with him as a living reality is through the furnace of affliction.
Timothy Keller
#26. It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life ...
the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.
Deepak Chopra
#27. We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse?
Gary R. Ryan
#28. Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.
Vann Chow
#29. Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.
Kemi Sogunle
#30. There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from.
Jeffrey Jones
#31. We all do think of getting to the ultimate in life.The ultimate way to get to the ultimate is to take the ultimate way in life
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#33. Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.
Andre Maurois
#35. Your journey is completely yours. It is unique. Others may try to steal part of it, tell it in their words or shape it to suit them. Reality is no one can live it or own it but you. Take charge of your journey, it's yours and yours alone!
Kemi Sogunle
#36. On the contrary, anyone speaking or writing about concentration camps is still regarded as suspect; and if the speaker has resolutely returned to the world of the living, he himself is often assailed by doubts with regard to his own truthfulness, as though he had mistaken a nightmare for reality.
Hannah Arendt
#37. I'm not scared of dying perhaps I'm scared of living in this world.
Myself
#38. People are living books. The real library of life is community.
Bryant McGill
#39. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.
Charlotte Eriksson
#40. It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else's version of what they think you should be.
Terence Blacker
#41. We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.
Nenia Campbell
#42. Realism is knowing fantasy and reality intersect constantly. Realism is living with the awareness that every act changes the world.
Ales Kot
#43. Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.
Jerry Brown
#44. Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#45. You can't speak life to others if you don't know how to speak life to yourself. Dead leaves can't breathe.
Kemi Sogunle
#46. Each of us, through the actions we take, plant the seeds which will eventually but inevitably grow and create the reality we will find ourselves living in.
Sharon Gannon
#47. It was reality TV that convinced SILAS he would need to annihilate humanity in order to go on living.
Nick Cole
#48. You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#49. Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
Eazy-E
#51. Every time you mistreat someone, you reveal the part of you that lacks love and needs to heal.
Kemi Sogunle
#52. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion
Brennan Manning
#53. Living is not an art, but to write of life is. Life is a series of accidents and anticlimaxes, misremembered and misunderstood, with lessons only dimly learned. Life is disorganized, lacks shape, lacks story.
Christopher Priest
#54. When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.
Vina, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), Star Trek, 1966
Gene Roddenberry
#55. I think I spend most of my time not living in reality, actually.
Andy Serkis
#56. The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.
Alan Rosenberg
#57. Can't look at the damage that's been done, it's not healthy. Have to look ahead of it. Can't change what I've done, only what I'm gonna do.
Jordan Ghere
#58. Our region is going to be in chaos for a long time, ... The media's not playing it up to make it seem worse than it is. The reality is that it's as bad or worse than what you're seeing on TV. It's going to take a lot of help from a lot of people to get everybody back to living a normal life again.
David Toms
#59. It's one thing to see someone with cognitive trouble for a few days as a guest in your home or at quick, chaotic family celebrations. Actually living with him in his home is a whole other plane of reality check.
Paula Spencer Scott
#60. This is reality, whether you like it or not
all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.
Willa Cather
#61. Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.
John Eliot
#62. For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?
Clare B. Dunkle
#63. Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin
#64. I remember the odd sensation of living in the middle of that experience and feeling, simultaneously, like it was something happening at telescopic distance. Like something I was looking at through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.
Wally Lamb
#65. Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina
Octavia Butler
#66. ... helping each other to have a true gaze on reality, on the circumstances we are living in, is the first gesture of friendship we can offer each other for living like human beings in the presence of the needs of the world.
Julian Carron
#67. It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living ... Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#68. We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.
Peter Kreeft
#69. On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.
Erri De Luca
#70. We've yet to comprehend the impervious reality that to gain 'life' we have to do the most scandalous thing imaginable, and that is to work 'against' the whole of our humanity and give everything away. And yet to give everything away is to work 'with' the whole of God's character.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#71. Every living creature on this planet, has a conscious subjective perspective of the world. The plants may seem to us as standing indifferent to the human sufferings, but even they have their own unique mental universe. They have their own way of interacting with the environment.
Abhijit Naskar
#72. A warm dead photograph is much livelier than a living cold reality!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face.
T.F. Hodge
#74. It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty with the reality of children orphaned by AIDS the transition from village life to city life.
Laura Thielen
#75. Living Beauty is about creating a new ideal, a new reality, and a new aspiration for yourself. It's a guide filled with knowledge, secrets, and solutions to make you look and feel great
Bobbi Brown
#76. The reality is that we are safe and we have the capacity to enjoy the wonders of life in the present moment. When we recognize that our suffering is based on images instead of current reality, then living happily in the present moment becomes possible right away.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#77. When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.
Avril Lavigne
#78. This figure shows the cash flows in a world with only two people. I labeled them creditor and debtor. In reality, there are many creditors and debtors (see text for details). It also explains why the "rich get richer" and why those who are in debt and work for a living never seem to "get ahead.
Jacob Lund Fisker
#79. We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
Pope Benedict XVI
#80. Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.
Thomas Merton
#82. In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.
Jo Walton
#83. I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality.
Sarah Mally
#84. 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.
Christopher McCandless
#85. 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
#86. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
Rachel Carson
#87. For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.
Sylvia Porter
#88. My heart was still beating, I was still breathing, but was living something more?
Molly Looby
#89. That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.
Dennis Lehane
#90. When the time is right, you will find your space in universal design. That space is the reality of our consciousness; rest is layers upon layers of memories, desires, and insecurities of mind.
Shashi
#91. The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.
Aldous Huxley
#92. Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#93. Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.
Ron Perlman
#94. Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.
Shannon L. Alder
#95. The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist ... It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.
Thomas Merton
#96. Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented.
Reality needs none of the above.
Manoj Vaz
#97. I have since come to understand the reality that sometimes God wants us to go through a process without ever achieving what we thought was the goal. God cares about the journey more than the end result.
Shelene Bryan
#98. Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from a cup.
Paula Rothenberg
#99. The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.
Bell Hooks
#100. Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.
Michael Crichton
