Quotes about Reality
Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
— Joseph Brodsky
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
— Walt Disney
If there is sin against life, it consists¦ in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
— Albert Camus
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
— Bill Gates
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
— Mark Twain
Can we apply this expression to our own belief in the reality of God in our lives and our world? As
— Margaret Silf
My dear, you will be woefully disappointed if in my story you expect any thing like a novel. I once heard a general say, that nothing was less like a review than a battle; and I can tell you that nothing is more unlike a novel than real life. Of all lives, mine has been the least romantic.
— Maria Edgeworth
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
— Marianne Williamson
But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?
— Lewis Carroll
Other peoples opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
— Les Brown
My first paintings were of my dreams. They were more real to me than the reality I was living in--I didn't like my reality. I remember waking up, and the memory of my dreams was so strong that I would write them down, and then I would paint them, in just two very particular colors, a deep green and a night blue. Never anything else.
— Marina Abramovic
It was a big base of my performance art ... the idea of here and now ... not something that's happening in the past or the future. It's always happening. It's always now.... Only what matters is the present.
— Marina Abramovic