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Here are the best inspirational quotes and sayings for 2023 about accepting and waking up to harsh reality of life.
What Is Reality Sayings
1. “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away” – Philip K. Dick
2. “Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems, but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible” – Salman Rushdie
3. “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one” – Albert Einstein
4. “Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about” – Stephen Richards
5. “Reality is a sliding door” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “Reality is nothing but a collective hunch” – Lily Tomlin
7. “Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor” – Wallace Stevens
8. “Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface” – A. Lee Martinez
Short Quotes About Reality
9. “When you argue with reality, you’ll lose” – Byron Katie
10. “You create your own reality” – Jane Roberts
11. “There is no unique picture of reality” – Stephen Hawking
12. “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination” – John Lennon
13. “Reality can be beaten with enough imagination” – Mark Twain
14. “Harsh reality is always better than false hope” – Julian Fellowes
15. “Reality is not always probable, or likely” – Jorge Luis Borges
16. “Reality is the name we give to our disappointments” – Mason Cooley
Quotes About Facing Reality
17. “Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be” – Jack Welch
18. “Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you” – Alex Haley
19. “In the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing” – Desmond Tutu
20. “To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it” – George Wald
21. “When you fight reality, you will lose every time. Once you accept the situation for what it truly is… you are then free to move forward” – Jennifer Young
22. “Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like” – Lao Tzu
23. “Let us live for the beauty of our own reality” – Charles Lamb
24. “We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality” – Iris Murdoch
Quotes About Reality And Fantasy
25. “We don’t live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality” – Bryan Singer
26. “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality” – Nikos Kazantzakis
27. “Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it” – Gustave Flaubert
28. “Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it” – Jane Wagner
29. “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else” – George Orwell
30. “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense” – Tom Clancy
31. “There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life” – Hermann Hesse
32. “There is a reality – so subtle that it becomes more real than reality” – Alfred Stieglitz
Reality Is Bitter Quotes
33. “Reality really is theater. There’s no other way to describe it. It’s all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic” – Joe Rogan
34. “Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything” – Joe Biden
35. “Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays” – Aldous Huxley
36. “Reality is brutal, it’s beautiful, it’s every shade between black and white, and it’s magical. Yes, magical. Because every now and then, it turns nothing into something” – Tara Kelly
37. “Reality is the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we’ve managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal” – Terence McKenna
38. “Your Reality will become what You embrace” – Rick Renner
Quotes About Reality And Perception
39. “Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won” – Paul Celan
40. “Nothing has ever become better by ignoring the reality” – Joe Kaeser
41. “Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction” – Yann Martel
42. “Reality simply consists of different points of view” – Margaret Atwood
43. “Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned” – Emile Durkheim
44. “Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed” – F. Paul Wilson
45. “Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow” – Luigi Pirandello
46. “To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such” – Laurence Gonzales
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