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Reality Quotes

"No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you."

"No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you."

Joyce Meyer, American Author

Reality, Population, Popularity, Opinion, Truth

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"Excercise is nothing more than a depressing reminder that one is not a god."

"Excercise is nothing more than a depressing reminder that one is not a god."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Reality, Truth, Regret, Power, Wisdom

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"We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting."

"We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Reality, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Life

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"Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Roll up that tender air and the plant dies, the colour fades. The earth we walk on is a parched cinder. It is marl we tread and fiery cobbles scorch our feet. By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis waking that kills us."

"Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Roll up that tender air and the plant dies, the colour fades. The earth we walk on is a parched cinder. It is marl we tread and fiery cobbles scorch our feet. By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis waking that kills us."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reality, Illusion, Truth, Dream, Soul

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"Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don't be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality."

"Don't let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don't be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Reality, Evil, Broken, View, World

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"Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank."

"Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

Reality, Mind, War, Perspective

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"When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that's the real world."

"When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that's the real world."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Reality, Pain, Truth, Life

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"The only monsters I have ever known were men."

"The only monsters I have ever known were men."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Reality, Humanity, Truth, Darkness, Violence

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"Perfection is fragile, interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril."

"Perfection is fragile, interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

Reality, Sensitivity, Peril, Imperfection, Truth

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"I've had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it's not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you!"

"I've had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it's not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you!"

Stephen Richards, British Author

Reality, Guns, Danger, Fear, Survival

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"Reality never comes as a problem. It is only the ideas about reality that comes as a problem."

"Reality never comes as a problem. It is only the ideas about reality that comes as a problem."

Osho, Indian Spiritual Leader

Reality, Idea, Problem, Perception

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"The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment."

"The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Reality, Creation, Destruction, Time, Change

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"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."

"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."

George Eliot, British Author

Reality, Acceptance, Truth, Perception

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"He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts."

"He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

Reality, Confusion, Truth, Lies, Identity

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"The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!"

"The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Reality, Imperfection, Truth, Wisdom, Life

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"In real life, you don't get a reset, and you don't get extra lives, and I got the crap pounded out of me."

"In real life, you don't get a reset, and you don't get extra lives, and I got the crap pounded out of me."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

Reality, Life, Struggle, Failure

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"Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing."

"Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

Reality, Intention, Perception, Death, Life

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"As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures."

"As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

Reality, Perfection, Emotion, Pain

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"We'd met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world."

"We'd met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

Reality, Love, Change, Hardship

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"If you take steps based on fantasies and illusions, you shall meet realities and remember the had I knows in sorrow."

"If you take steps based on fantasies and illusions, you shall meet realities and remember the had I knows in sorrow."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Reality, Fantasy, Sorrow, Regret

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"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."

"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed."

"This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Reality, Help, Trust, Disappointment, Life

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"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."

"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Swedish Businessman

Reality, Perception, Truth, Expectation

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"We waste this life dreaming of another."

"We waste this life dreaming of another."

Marty Rubin, American Author

Reality, Life, Waste, Hope

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"No more looking at a wall and pretending it's a mirror. No more shelving fiction in the non-fiction section. No more thinking I could get away with it."

"No more looking at a wall and pretending it's a mirror. No more shelving fiction in the non-fiction section. No more thinking I could get away with it."

David Levithan, American Author

Reality, Fiction, Truth, Life

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"Life can only be experienced."

"Life can only be experienced."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Reality, Life, Experience, Live, Feeling

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"Your thinking creates your reality."

"Your thinking creates your reality."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Reality, Manifestation

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"Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real."

"Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Reality, Faith, Truth, Regret, Inspirational

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"Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never."

"Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never."

Euripides, Greek Poet

Reality, Logic, Happiness, Life, Reflection

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"We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it."

"We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it."

George Eliot, British Author

Reality, Discovery, Truth, World

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"You cannot have it both ways."

"You cannot have it both ways."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Reality, Choice, Duality, Conflict, Decision

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"Infinite and finite are both mental constructs."

"Infinite and finite are both mental constructs."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Reality, Truth, Wisdom, Philosophy, Inspirational

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"Just because we do not perceive something, it is not correct to say it does not exist."

"Just because we do not perceive something, it is not correct to say it does not exist."

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Poet

Reality, Existence, Perception, Truth

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"We are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecuewe are unwanted and burning we are burning and unwanted we arean unwantedburningas we sizzle and fryto the bonethe coals of Dante's 'Inferno' spit and sputter beneathus andabove the sky is an open hand andthe words of wise men are uselessit's not a nice world, a nice world it's not ..."

"We are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecuewe are unwanted and burning we are burning and unwanted we arean unwantedburningas we sizzle and fryto the bonethe coals of Dante's 'Inferno' spit and sputter beneathus andabove the sky is an open hand andthe words of wise men are uselessit's not a nice world, a nice world it's not ..."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Reality, Pain, Suffering, World, Chaos

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"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Reality, Pace, Limits, Perception

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"The amount of women you hear say, "If Donald-or Arthur-or whatever his name was-had only lived." And I sometimes think but if he had, he'd have been a stout, unromantic, short-tempered, middle-aged husband as likely as not."

"The amount of women you hear say, "If Donald-or Arthur-or whatever his name was-had only lived." And I sometimes think but if he had, he'd have been a stout, unromantic, short-tempered, middle-aged husband as likely as not."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Reality, Women, Marriage, Expectation

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"Don't cover up your sore with your wealth. Your wealth has limitations. At the Limit the sore will embarrassing by surface."

"Don't cover up your sore with your wealth. Your wealth has limitations. At the Limit the sore will embarrassing by surface."

Ikechukwu Joseph, Nigerian Motivational Speaker

Reality, Wealth, Limitation, Awareness

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"Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris."

"Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Reality, Luck, Mistake, History

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"It's a fact that at the deeper levels there are less humans."

"It's a fact that at the deeper levels there are less humans."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Reality, Truth, Life, Knowledge

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"Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny."

"Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Reality, Thoughts, Destiny, Perception

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"Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest."

"Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Reality, Burden, Perception, Comparison, Life

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"The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head."

"The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Reality, Thought, Truth, Perception

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"Kicking the can down the road implies that we're accepted the galling reality that whatever it is that we've avoiding, it's something that's not going to go away; at least on its own."

"Kicking the can down the road implies that we're accepted the galling reality that whatever it is that we've avoiding, it's something that's not going to go away; at least on its own."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Reality, Truth, Life, Power, Regret

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"You don't feed nightingales on fairy-tales."

"You don't feed nightingales on fairy-tales."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

Reality, Truth, Myth, Life

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"People like to separate storytelling which is not fact from history which is fact. They do this so that they know what to believe and what not to believe."

"People like to separate storytelling which is not fact from history which is fact. They do this so that they know what to believe and what not to believe."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Reality, Storytelling, History, Truth, Belief

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"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."

"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Reality, Future, Contemplation, Dream

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"The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that, and maybe sleeping beauty's dead."

"The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that, and maybe sleeping beauty's dead."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Reality, Fantasy, Truth, Expectation

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"Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page."

"Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Reality, Theory, Truth, Power

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"I just think the world ought to be more sort of organized.''That's just fantasy,' said Twoflower.'I know. That's the trouble.' Rincewind sighed again."

"I just think the world ought to be more sort of organized.''That's just fantasy,' said Twoflower.'I know. That's the trouble.' Rincewind sighed again."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Reality, Fantasy, Wisdom, Truth, Regret

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"Always think that there will be no one there for you, cause in a rainy day the percentage of people that will not be willing to help you 99.9 %."

"Always think that there will be no one there for you, cause in a rainy day the percentage of people that will not be willing to help you 99.9 %."

Sami Abouzid, Egyptian Writer

Reality, Help, Trust, Life

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