Life Reality Quotes

I jokingly call this convergence of games into reality the 'Gamepocalypse:' the moment when every moment of life is actually a game. ~ Jesse Schell

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them. ~ Jennifer Lopez

It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life. ~ Adyashanti

So what's the test?"
"Ah, that's the trick of it. It's not a test. It's real life. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life. ~ Joseph Campbell

But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life. ~ Ayn Rand

Does it matter whether it was a dream or a reality, if the dream made known to me the truth? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man's land between life and death, sleeping and waking. ~ Angela Carter

Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure
when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality. ~ Toba Beta

We keep hoping in God while reality keeps knocking at our door. ~ Shina Charles Memud

In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to make himself, so to speak, a case which would isolate him and protect him from external influences. Reality irritated him, frightened him, kept him in continual agitation, and, perhaps to justify his timidity, his aversion for the actual, he always praised the past and what had never existed; and even the classical languages which he taught were in reality for him goloshes and umbrellas in which he sheltered himself from real life. ~ Anton Chekhov

I spoke of the tragic illusion of perpetuity, but, no, my friends, it is a comic one. The ludicrous plot in which we are all trapped. The ancient Greeks referred to plot as mythos, attributing the random drift of human affairs to some sort of unknowable but glimpsable divine motion, attempting to attach a certain grandeur to it, the delusion of meaning. But we are characters who do not exist, in a story composed by no one from nothing. Can anything be more pitiable? No wonder we all are grieving. ~ Robert Coover

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). ~ Julio Cortazar

I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible. ~ Lindsey Vonn

Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled matter-something vital that we cannot build out of these parts. There is surely something else, some piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and that owes no homage to the sun. ~ Walker Evans

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors. ~ Sam Harris

I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You took life by the horns and tried to hold on tight, for fear of being ripped to shreds, left bloodied and battered. ~ Holly Hood

It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror. ~ Jean Lorrain

He closed his eyes and the warmth sank into his head, bringing an immediate sense of life. Reality came through the violent breathing, and with a sort of nostalgic remorse. He felt as though he was waiting tranquilly for some undefined revenge. ~ Yasunari Kawabata

Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life. ~ Hank Williams, Jr.

Like space, the soul is not an expression of eternal constancy but of constant change, and this motion has but one purpose: to continue forward, on the narrow ledge, in the absurd hope that you can escape the Darkness. ~ Erik Valeur

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own. ~ Heraclitus

Reality shall reach you somewhere in between A and Z still and all creativity shall reach you anywhere in between Zero and Infinity ~ P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

One cannot live on dreams, but neither can one live without them. ~ H.I. Defaz

Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle ... The encounter with the truth of art happens in the estranging language and images which make perceptible, visible, and audible that which is no longer, or not yet, perceived, said, and heard in everyday life. ~ Herbert Marcuse

You only live once so, lets make a difference people will remember. ~ Xena Thornton

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

Life truly becomes exactly what you make it. All the choices lead to the reality you are experiencing. ~ Steven Redhead

Physical reality is a reflection of what's going on in our belief systems and in our energy. (...)

Physical reality is really nothing more than a mirror of the energetic state of being that we choose to be in, based on the beliefs we hold to be true. (...)

It's possible to learn the lesson that allows us to change ourselves and get a different reflection. ~ Darryl Anka

I think you need to be a little in love - not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps - but to be in love with the reality of your own life. ~ Maria Popova

Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's not real life and a steady diet of stories like that will give you a pretty unhealthy view of reality. ~ Bartlett Sher

Valerie didn't have those problems. Valerie was just another dancer, and anything she needed to hide would be mundane and understandable. Sometimes I envied Valerie, even though I knew that her life was simple only because she didn't actually exist. Maybe that was always the secret to a simple life. Reality was the complicating factor. ~ Seanan McGuire

I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life. ~ Joshua Oppenheimer

Seeing all life
in perfect symmetry.
Perceiving each day
with righteous clarity.
Living each moment
in purposed reality.
Believing each day
is the start of eternity. ~ S. Tarr

It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life. ~ Daisaku Ikeda

It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies. ~ Mallory Ortberg

Every human is technically a meaningless sack of carbon clinging to a rock hurtling through the uncaring void around trillions of tons of nuclear fire, but that's too big for a single human to be aware of ~ Dean Burnett

It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life. ~ Carolina Herrera

To lose a problem, do not oppose, let go of any need to control, perhaps it's all an illusion we project, more like a game we play than real? ~ Jay Woodman

So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around. ~ Alan Thicke

What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering. ~ Hermann Hesse

Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite. ~ Zach Johnson

How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure. ~ Parker J. Palmer

I cut fake people faster than Bugatti reaches its 100 miles speed. I often tell myself, this is called "Art of Living". ~ Rakesh Vemulawada

I suffer from life and from other people. I can't look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful - only then do I find myself and feel comforted. ~ Fernando Pessoa

I refuse to settle for what you call reality. ~ Solange Nicole

One can wait a whole lifetime for a moment like this. The woman whom you never hoped to meet now sits before you and she talks and looks exactly like the person you dreamed about. But the strangest of all is that you never realized before that you had dreamed about her. Your whole past is like a long sleep, which would have been forgotten had there been no dream. And the dream too, might have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there in the blood and the blood is like an ocean in which every thing is washed away, but that which is new and more substantial even than life: Reality. ~ Henry Miller

I could enjoy the simple life with a small living quarters, a scratched album of Johnny Cash and a Box of Twinkies ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

I do think that fashion may end up being the 'killer app' for wearable augmented reality systems. This is in part because it's not simply task-oriented - like finding a restaurant or where your friend is currently lounging about - but experience-oriented. It becomes part of your life. ~ Jamais Cascio

Just because we're adults doesn't mean we should grow up! The world's a playground for us, Melody, and I for one intend to play! ~ S.R. Crawford

You brought nothing into this world; you will take nothing from it, but please, leave us with something ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life. ~ Robert Greene

But that wouldn't be honest. That wouldn't be real. That would give you the idea that a life is a simple thing to tell, that it's obvious where to start--BIRTH--and even more obvious where to stop--DEATH. Fade from black to black.
I won't have it. I won't be one of the hundreds telling you that being alive flows like a story you write consciously, deliberately, full of linear narrative, foreshadowing, repetition, motifs. The emotional beats come down where they should, last as long as they should, end when they should, and that 'should' come from somewhere real and natural, not from the tyranny of the theatre, the utter hegemony of fiction. Why, isn't living easy? Isn't it grand? As easy as reading aloud.
No.
If I slice it all up and stitch it back together, you might not understand what I've been trying to say all my life: that any story is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it. I can't. I can't tell you that lie...
If I fixed it so time goes the way you expect, you might come away thinking I know what the hell I'm doing. ~ Catherynne M. Valente

And it all came to pass, all that she had hoped, but it did not fill her with rapture nor carry her away with the power or the fervor she had expected. She had imagined it all different, and had imagined herself different, too. In dreams and poems everything had been, as it were, beyond the sea; the haze of distance had mysteriously veiled all the restless mass of details and had thrown out the large lines in bold relief, while the silence of distance had lent its spirit of enchantment. It had been easy then to feel the beauty; but now that she was in the midst of it all, when every little feature stood out and spoke boldly with the manifold voices of reality, and beauty was shattered as light in a prism, she could not gather the rays together again, could not put the picture back beyond the sea. Despondently she was obliged to admit to herself that she felt poor, surrounded by riches that she could not make her own. ~ Jens Peter Jacobsen

Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics.
(Press X to thanklessly toil your life away) ~ Yahtzee Croshaw

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals. ~ Edmund Husserl

People who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it. ~ Guy Debord

Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot.
Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong ... " you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot.
No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

The ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth. ~ Ellen Glasgow

The simple law of the universe is that you create your own reality ~ Julian Pencilliah

Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. Then, I fell asleep, and the dream ended. Now- I have to ask myself - am I Zhuang Zi who dreamed of a butterfly? Or am I that butterfly, dreaming I am Zhuang Zi? ~ Zhuangzi

What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist that what they really care about, is the abstract qualities of life. ~ Marlene Dumas

Without your entrance to greater reality in this life, greater reality has no entrance to this life. The meaning of all of this lifeisn't as it appears. The meaning of this life is for greater reality to manifest through all the forms of this life. ~ John De Ruiter

Being a visionary is a blessing and a curse, you're blessed to see things other people are not able to see but you are cursed to sit in it alone ~ David Banner

Just like life, reality shifted and twisted out of her grasp [Elena's view on Gran Sasso] ~ Kirsten Arcadio

My reality is at the end of the dream. When I walk down the road of life, searching for the door that will guide me to my reality, I am merely walking to confirm there is nothing there. ~ Lionel Suggs

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves! ~ Joyce Meyer

This life is our shared dream.
We all may meet again in reality. ~ Toba Beta

We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in different views. Somehow, if we could remove those glasses, we can see the world with real colors. Name of the most difficult to remove glass is 'there are permanent things of mine. ~ Muditha Champika

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language. ~ Terence McKenna

Your reality is not what you see but it is what you imagine! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances. ~ W.S. Gilbert

After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do. ~ Victor Robert Lee

I heard this when I was in the Air Force: There's never enough time to do the job right, but always enough time to do it over. ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it ~ John Keats

Why do we learn things we'll never use? Why are we taught f(x+y) = f(x) + f(y)? Why are we made to memorize the decline and fall or royal dynasties but not stories of people who've experienced and overcome heartbreak? Why do we answer dozens of questions about the layers of the earth but not of what lies within ourselves? Why do we break down the cellular anatomies of amoebas and plankton but not the anatomy of pain? Why are we told to win, before we're told to overcome ourselves? Why are we lectured on English and French grammar, before we can learn what it is we really need to hear in life? Why are we taught to compete, not cooperate? Why are we forced to compare and ask, what grade did you get, what place did you finish in, whose clothes are you wearing, where did you go to school, where do you work? Why does not being at the top automatically mean you've failed? Why do we feel the need to look good on paper, and who decides what's written on this "paper"? Why can't everyone just be left alone? Why can't everyone just stop running? Who is making us feel more shame with every ounce of envy? Who is this elusive Pied Piper at the head of the pack, luring everyone with his pipe? And just who and where am I? ~ Min-gyu Park

Life is beautiful and weird. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life. ~ John Ortberg

I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs ... ~ Cesar Aira

Do I avoid looking a stranger in the eyes because I don't want to make him uncomfortable, or do I turn my eyes so he can't look into me? ~ Hugh Prather

All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life. ~ James Russell Lowell

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy ... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality. ~ Harold S. Kushner

My mind is like a Zoo with no cages ... Watch where you step ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life. ~ Hugo Weaving

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life! ~ Garth Brooks

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal. ~ Moshe Dayan

God is, in truth, the whole universe: what was, what is and what beyond shall ever be. He is the God of life immortal and of all life that lives by food. His hands and feet are everywhere. He has heads and mouths everywhere. He sees all, He hears all. He is in all, and He Is. ~ Anonymous

First partakers of love are always enveloped with the real intention ~ Sunday Adelaja

The exact symptom of sad people is their innocence and honesty but these kind of people always at the top of success... ~ Agha Kousar

There is only one limitation that exists in our minds, which can indeed reduce the speed of our progress; that is the limitation of our understanding ~ Sunday Adelaja

A question that always haunts me. Why can't people just be real? It's easier being real than pretend being real. Give yourself a chance. ~ Manasa Rao

My life exists in an imagined reality. ~ Mandy Patinkin

The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all
all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality
there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand?Here is the truth
actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested. ~ David Foster Wallace

Persistently worrying yourself over what life throws at you never makes it better but deters you from your set goals in life. ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Ali, Son of the Father of the Seeker
Ali said: 'None may arrive at the Truth until he is able to think that the Path itself may be wrong. This is because those who can only believe that it must be right are not believers, but people who are incapable of thinking otherwise than they already think. Such people are not men at all. Like animals they must follow certain beliefs, and during this time they cannot learn. Because they cannot be called "humanity", they cannot arrive at the Truth. ~ Idries Shah

There are a lot of things I want," I say quietly and deliberately. "But I think I will keep what I have. ~ Rosamund Hodge

Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing. ~ Johnny Depp

By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life. ~ Gary Zukav