Reflects Reality Quotes

#1. You spend so much of your life crafting this stuff that you want to laugh in the room. I don't want to sit there and slit my wrists. And I think it reflects reality. People use humor to survive, even in the most horrific situations.

Jenji Kohan

#2. Our culture highlights all the trouble, all the drama, all the affairs and all the junk. Do not believe for a minute that any of that reflects reality. That does not have to be your future. The handwriting is not written on the wall.

Andy Stanley

#3. When our mind is calm, it reflects reality accurately, without distortion. Breathing, sitting, and walking with mindfulness calms disturbing mental formations such as anger, fear, and despair, allowing us to see reality more clearly.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#4. The closer art reflects reality, the less artistic it becomes. Art is most enticing when it mimics life as a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing. The contrary is always a grave disappointment.

Anthony Marais

#5. A lot of time, the music reflects reality, which reflects music.

LeCrae

#6. The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.

Piet Mondrian

#7. Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.

Stanislav Grof

#8. Most people don't think past themselves. I know that. But I want Vera to see other people. To respect other people. To realize that the whole world is not here for her. I want her to see her duty to the world, not the other way around.

A.S. King

#9. Love survives in a bubble. It diffuses outer reality and reflects only what the heart wants to see.

Shona Patel

#10. The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that astrology promises, but in the deepest ways.

Carl Sagan

#11. I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

Yehuda Amichai

#12. We have done everything within the scope of modern medicine.' Those are just words. They apparently did everything within their erratic knowledge and the limits of their vanity.

Sandor Marai

#13. There isn't a cure for consciousness, and feeling bad about ourselves reflects the evidence that there's something terribly wrong with this world and the way it affects our personal reality.

Daniel Marques

#14. We should always be working towards the reinforcement of our postulates and not our actions, and much less our assumptions about reality or even ourselves. And this, simply because what we create reflects back at us and changes us.

Robin Sacredfire

#15. Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Paul Tillich

#16. I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world, about trying to clear a bit the misty lake of insubstantial dreams, which reflect reality like the lake reflects the mountains.

Carlo Rovelli

#17. You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth ... after the fact.

Andy Serkis

#18. The news reflects the reality you're contributing to become manifested.

Robin Sacredfire

#19. What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.

Hans Rookmaaker

#20. But we were supposed to be exceptional." "Wakanda is exceptional, Baba. And now, more than ever, we need someone to remind us.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#21. If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.

Andy Goldsworthy

#22. The important message of the energy of attraction is in learning to master your choices in the present to create a personal reality that reflects this expanded consciousness.

Deepak Chopra

#23. How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Lou Reed

#24. A perennial problem that has faced the Scottish Highlands is that, time and again, too many of the more talented young people have had to move elsewhere - even abroad - through a lack of opportunities that should have been available.

Charles Kennedy

#25. I think it reflects the reality on the ground, that this was an important milestone that's been achieved by the Iraqi people, and it's a significant development. It's a real hopeful moment for democracy in Iraq.

Scott McClellan

#26. I would like to learn how to do that--to recognize the gift of enough.

Tom Montgomery Fate

#27. Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation
overcrowding
reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact
of being close to people, of being touched.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#28. This missile test reflects India's mindset, ... India's desire to control the subcontinent will never become a reality.

Rashid Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum

#29. You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've written is that of a woman. My men are, well, not quite worthless, but they are certainly weak, and that reflects the reality I grew up with and what I think has in a sense shaped me.

Athol Fugard

#30. Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It's resonant because it is made of the stuff that we see every day. It's familiar. It reflects our reality.

Elliott Hundley

#31. 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