Quotes About The Reality Of Life

#1. 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

#2. Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.

Brandon Boyd

#3. Storytelling explores the problem with people. Stories without conflict are bad stories that no one repeats. Conflict describes the reality of human life and interaction with others. The resolution of the conflict in which everyone lives happily ever after reflects the human yearning for hope.

Harry Lee Poe

#4. Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Nelson Mandela

#5. Regardless of what you believe in or conceive of as the functionality of Reality, the Oneness of you with all you experience in your life is an absolute

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#6. Don't you just hate it when real life gets in the way of your own reality.

Menna Anwar

#7. It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but people kill them before they grow to have life!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. Science in its attempt to unravel the mysteries of the Universe,
Has discovered the ultimate reality that we are all One.

Gian Kumar

#9. For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.

Frederick Lenz

#10. The evils of envy and hatred masquerading as humanitarian idealism had darkened his life from its outset, stamping him as a man quick to search for the reality behind the expression of fine sentiments.

Theodore Dalrymple

#11. Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.

Vann Chow

#12. As we unfold spiritually, the reality of our inner life enters new dimensions and we must change with it.

Harold Klemp

#13. We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.

Nelson Mandela

#14. You took life by the horns and tried to hold on tight, for fear of being ripped to shreds, left bloodied and battered.

Holly Hood

#15. All three explanations - eternal life, reincarnation, and nothingness - are descriptions of the same reality.

John K. Brown

#16. From the tiniest experience of your daily life to your grand perception of the universe, in various situations, the human brain tends to create its own myth and stories.

Abhijit Naskar

#17. I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#18. Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#19. In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable.

Lawrence Bossidy

#20. Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.

Damien Rice

#21. Life reorders you when you go into the clear light. Even the causal structure is liquefied. The clear light of reality, the dharmakaya, changes us into beings of light.

Frederick Lenz

#22. In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.

Tim Willocks

#23. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Ayn Rand

#24. The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

Leland Ryken

#25. In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn that any contamination by ordinary life runs the risk of corrupting and destroying its very nature.

Roger Caillois

#26. Artistic expressions of beauty provide the outlet for revelations from within.

Guy Lozier

#27. We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.

Robin Sharma

#28. Our own intuition of what we're called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.

Adyashanti

#29. Despite the fact that life has repeatedly reinforced my conviction that the tomb was empty, some of my most profound errors have occurred when I was straining under the weight of a death that was in reality the liberation of a transition.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#30. The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line between desire and temptation. Where did she draw the line? When did she admit defeat and surrender?

Callie Hunter

#31. Upset The Established Order Of Your Life And Everything Becomes Chaos ... To A Degree That You Wont Be Able To Differentiate Between Mere Illusions And Solid Reality

Sherif A. El-Mawardy

#32. Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#33. We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.

Philip K. Dick

#34. I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Oscar Wilde

#35. Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that reality and are looking for clarity concerning the life that they are engulfed in.

Noah Cicero

#36. One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set ... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it ... could be dismantled overnight.

J.G. Ballard

#37. The reality of life is chaos; the fantasy of man is order. (..) The world of art, the world of games, the world of politics, so many worlds men make for themselves, are in a very fundamental way fantastic.

Eric S. Rabkin

#38. Stories are epically important to how we view and interact in the world around us. We define ourselves, our abilities and even our goals by the stories we believe and share. These stories become part of our personal view of our world.

Lyssa Danehy DeHart

#39. It's perfect. Blurred lines; it's when fact and fiction become indiscernible. Fantasy and reality fade into a color of grey yarn and you become tangled up in it and can't escape into the world of black and white you desperately need as proof of the reality of life itself.

Scott Hildreth

#40. Any man that hits a woman no matter the circumstances, he's no man".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#41. When a tire blows, you simply accept that this is the here and now reality of your life. You've lost the tire, but that doesn't mean that you have to lose your peace and serenity. Now, serenely, begin to take the necessary steps in order the change the tire.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#42. 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

#43. Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity."
"FYI, philosophy bores me."
"Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

J.R. Ward

#44. We should not only attend church but must have a ministry in the church as well

Sunday Adelaja

#45. We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.

T.L. Rese

#46. Truth will keep on telling the truth
Lies will lie to be more uncouth
No more rainbow after the storm
Nowhere to escape leaving the norm

Munia Khan

#47. In order to have bread (a symbol of prosperity ) you have to first learn how to plough the land

Sunday Adelaja

#48. In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

Jonah Goldberg

#49. The only thing that can create discord between friends is money and women.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#50. Serve the Lord and then your success will be with Joy

Sunday Adelaja

#51. Stories and novels consist of three parts: narration, which moves the story from point A to point B and finally to point Z; description, which creates a sensory reality for the reader; and dialogue, which brings characters to life through their speech.

Stephen King

#52. Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure
when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality.

Toba Beta

#53. Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#54. To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

#55. The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is a successful variant of a group identity and is in accord with its space-time and life plan.

Erik Erikson

#56. The language of mathematics, scientific observations, and our perceptivity together knit the window to reality.

Neeti Sinha

#57. The dignity of a woman's life is infinite, her status immeasurable, her capacity unbounded, her role divine ... In the fast changing world of today her vision penetrates into the reality of the far beyond, the reality which endures beyond change.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#58. The way I look at life, and the way I look at the reality of Parkinson's, is that sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's funny. I need to look at it that way, and I think other people will look at it that way.

Michael J. Fox

#59. Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.

Daniel H. Wilson

#60. Battles are won by those who never give up the fight.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#61. Life is made for the living.

J.J.V. The Storyteller

#62. Welcome to the Carnival of Life, where dreams are a reality and reality is dreams gone mad.

L. Scott Ward

#63. Anger is, in the Stoic analysis, caused by the violent collision of hope and reality. We

The School Of Life

#64. Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#65. Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

Hassan Blasim

#66. You are sunshine and moonlight, laughter and joy, a life lived entirely without fear. You heard the call of a dream and made it a reality. You are everything I believed I was fighting for all those years.

Elaine Levine

#67. You ever notice if you call someones cell phone they won't answer but if you text them seconds later they will. The Power of your Thumbs compels You!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#68. Everyone is the creator of their own perceived illusion of reality.

Steven Redhead

#69. But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83)

Sheldon B. Kopp

#70. We look for wonders and the unseen reality-the hand of God- in things extrordinary, when more often his presence is to be found in the unheralded, familiar, everyday events of which life is woven.

David G. Myers

#71. The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

Heraclitus

#72. In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it's easy to be scared by dreams.

Scott Sigler

#73. His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

Dan Simmons

#74. I do not believe for a moment that the Scriptures are against wealth. But the warning to those who make wealth their pursuit is a stern reality. Wealth must be processed through a philosophy of life that is greater than wealth itself. If not, it shapes the mind for bitter disappointments.

Ravi Zacharias

#75. The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

Thomas Wolfe

#76. It is only by remembering that 'Another lives in me' that we can die daily to that old, false, usurping self, and that we can continue to be drawn further in and higher up into the life of God. To 'practice the presence' is to continually call to mind this great reality.

Leanne Payne

#77. We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.

Ben Gibbard

#78. The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.

Amiri Baraka

#79. When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.

Agatha Christie

#80. You look like you. Only with the volume turned up.

Rainbow Rowell

#81. An empty glass is perceived by the eyes as nothing,
in reality, this nothing is something, because it has air.
That something is what we call energy pervading everywhere,
for it is the breath of air which brings life into you.

Gian Kumar

#82. Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Azar Nafisi

#83. Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs - and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.

Pawan Mishra

#84. Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

Heraclitus

#85. Man's life is thought,
And he, despite his terror, cannot cease
Ravening through century after century,
Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come
Into the desolation of reality ...

William Butler Yeats

#86. The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.

Christy Hall

#87. Our true reality is not a limited phenomenon, existing only between birth and death. It is eternal life that exists alone, self-existent and self-sufficient, the essence of all that is, was, and ever will be throughout the universe. That is what you really are.

Ilchi Lee

#88. Healing, he told us, depends on experiential knowledge: You can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral dimensions.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#89. Bullies are packed animals, when one fuels the fire others follow.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#90. Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.

Vicky Beeching

#91. Never make decisions you will live to regret later in the near future.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#92. Peace is all we need to heal the world".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#93. As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#94. As soon as the theoretician attempts to take account of so-called 'utility' and 'reality' instead of absolute truth, his work will cease to be a polar star of seeking humanity and instead will become a prescription for everyday life.

Adolf Hitler

#95. The word 'monster' [monstrum] derives from 'demonstrare,' meaning to show or to demonstrate. Heresy and evolutionary change are thus mere intrusions into a homogenous perception of reality. My vocation, I decided, would be to make my life an example.

But of what?

Steve Abbott

#96. Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

Meher Baba

#97. ...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always going to beat weird-looking and needy.

Alexei Sayle

#98. Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the disturbances of common life. What they tell us is supposed to be for the ages, not for the next election. But the reality may be otherwise.

Simon LeVay

#99. Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, "as in a battle," to break open for himself a path through the truths created by the sciences which "dream of being but cannot see it in waking reality.

Lev Shestov

#100. We are the masters of our reality.

Kat Von D.