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The Nature of Reality: A Quote Collection" ya "Reality & Life: 89 Quotes on Truth and Existence
A complete collection of quotes on truth, perception, and existence
Top 100 Quotes About Reality
Curated reflections on the nature of reality
1. “I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
— Richard P. Feynman
2. “The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
— Marcus Aurelius
3. “For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”
— Alan Watts
4. “Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.”
— Eckhart Tolle
5. “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
— Philip K. Dick
6. “There is no unique picture of reality.”
— Stephen Hawking
7. “One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.”
— Salvador Dalí
8. “Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.”
— Zhuangzi
9. “Life is not fair. Get used to it.”
— Bill Gates
10. “I’m not perfect. But I’ll always be real.”
— Tupac Shakur
11. “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
— Ayn Rand
12. “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
— Ernest Hemingway
13. “Things change; that’s the way it is.”
— Tupac Shakur
14. “Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”
— Democritus
15. “Your thoughts create your reality. Your mind is more powerful than you know.”
— Neale Donald Walsch
16. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
17. “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
— John Green
18. “You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.”
— Eckhart Tolle
19. “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
— J.K. Rowling
20. “I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
— Alan Watts
21. “You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”
— Alan Watts
22. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”
— Alan Watts
23. “The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself.”
— Neville Goddard
24. “Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.”
— Alan Watts
25. “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
— Charles Bukowski
26. “The map is not the territory.”
— Alfred Korzybski
27. “There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
28. “Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.”
— Neale Donald Walsch
29. “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
30. “Life is not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, and it won’t ever be. Do not fall into the trap of feeling like you’re a victim. You are not.”
— Matthew McConaughey
31. “Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this ‘reality’ as you view your dreams.”
— Marcus Aurelius
32. “Nothing is real.”
— John Lennon
33. “No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.”
— Marcus Aurelius
60+ Meaningful Quotes About The Reality Of Life
On accepting, shaping, and living within reality
1. “If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2. “Our intention creates our reality.”
— Wayne Dyer
3. “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
4. “Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.”
— Joseph Conrad
5. “People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.”
— Aldous Huxley
6. “When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.”
— Ayn Rand
7. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
— Abraham Lincoln
8. “Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.”
— Charles Lamb
9. “Faith is not logical. But it isn’t illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation.”
— Mark Batterson
10. “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
— Tom Clancy
11. “Reality isn’t the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be but the way they actually are.”
— Robert Ringer
12. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
— Laozi
13. “Few people have the imagination for reality.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
14. “Reality is a question of perspective.”
— Salman Rushdie
15. “Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”
— Democritus
16. “Life is one big road with lots of signs, so when you riding through the ruts, don’t you complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.”
— Bob Marley
17. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
18. “Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
— Jessamyn West
19. “Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.”
— Ralph Marston
20. “Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
— Alex Haley
21. “Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”
— Denis Waitley
22. “Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.”
— Earl Nightingale
23. “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
— Philip K. Dick
24. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”
— Colin Powell
Quotes About Life
Wisdom on living fully and meaningfully
1. “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
2. “Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you are living?”
— Bob Marley
3. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
— Mark Twain
4. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde
5. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
6. “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
— Arthur Rubinstein
7. “Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.”
— Confucius
8. “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
— Leo Tolstoy
9. “We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.”
— Lauryn Hill
10. “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love.”
— Wordsworth
11. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
12. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
— T.S. Eliot
13. “You couldn’t hide from bad things and pretend they didn’t exist, that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumble. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.”
— Sarah Cross
14. “Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.”
— Anonymous
15. “You create your own reality.”
— Jane Roberts
16. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
— Dolly Parton
17. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
— Albert Einstein
18. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
— Lao Tzu
19. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. “There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”
— Jodi Picoult
21. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
— Omar Khayyam
22. “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”
— Kevin Kruse
23. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
— Dr. Seuss
24. “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.”
— Rose Kennedy
25. “Your life’s work determines your legacy and the impact that you have on the world.”
— Germany Kent
26. “If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person.”
— Bill Clinton
27. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
29. “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”
— Walter Hagen
30. “Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.”
— Irving Berlin
31. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
— Albert Einstein
32. “You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.”
— Neil Gaiman
33. “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“The present is the only moment there ever is.”
— Eckhart Tolle
