The Reality Quotes will give you insights into life, relationships, love, friendship, truths about fake friends, and will help you explore some untold realities that will open your eyes.
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short reality quotes
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. – Albert Einstein
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you are living? – Bob Marley
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. – Lewis Carroll
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. – Democritus
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Oscar Wilde
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. – Serena Williams
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso
If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. – Jack Welch
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. – Tupac Shakur
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. – Soren Kierkegaard
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. – Chuck Palahniuk
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. – John Lennon
Get busy living or get busy dying. – Stephen King
Few people have the imagination for reality. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self-care is how you take your power back. – Lalah Delia
When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go. – Carol Burnett
You change the world by being yourself. – Yoko Ono
Live as if you were to die tomorrow – Mahatma Gandhi
Every man dies. Not every man lives. – William Wallace
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. – Nikos Kazantzakis
Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality. – Les Brown
Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. – Confucius
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. – Philip K. Dick
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. – Seneca
Reality is a question of perspective. – Salman Rushdie
Being happy never goes out of style. – Lilly Pulitzer
Everything is hard before it is easy. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our intention creates our reality. – Wayne Dyer
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories. – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it. – Lauryn Hill
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. – Mark Twain
There is no reality except the one contained within us. – Hermann Hesse
You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
The real world is where the monsters are. – Rick Riordan
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it. – Gustave Flaubert
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss
Sad reality quotes
It sucks, doesn’t it? Feeling like you’re not good enough.
A lot of you cared, just not enough. – Jay Asher
He is broken by one and it makes him hate everyone.
Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing – Fight Club
Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. – J.K. Rowling
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. – John Green
I wish I could go back to the day I met you and just walk away.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. – Jean de La Fontaine
The sadness will last forever. – Vincent van Gogh
Tears are words that need to be written. – Paulo Coelho
Life is too short to be angry or sad for long. – Alphonso Davies
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy. – Jim Rohn
I am so broken that even my soul refused to be there for me.
Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you. – Veronica Roth
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. – Henry Rollins
Don’t cry over someone who wouldn’t cry over you. – Lauren Conrad
Tears are words that need to be written. – Paulo Coelho
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Khalil Gibran
You’re sad because you’re afraid of reality. – Maxime Lagacé
It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time. – Willie Nelson
Sometimes, most cheerful people hold the most terrible pain.
Keep smiling, and one day life will get tired of upsetting you. – Nitya Prakash
Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you. – Veronica Roth
Tears are words that need to be written. – Paulo Coelho
Sadness is a silent scream.
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. – Emily Brontë
You’re going to make it. It’ll be hard but you’re going to make it.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Kahlil Gibran
It hurts when you have someone in your heart but you can’t have them in your arms.
You are not alone. Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. – Priyanshu Singh
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn
Deep reality quotes
You create your own reality. – Jane Roberts
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. – Charles Lamb
If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself. – Rumi
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. – Farraj Gray
You do not find the happy life. You make it. – Camilla Eyring Kimball
What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so. – Mark Twain
You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. – Kahlil Gibran
Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow. – Mahatma Gandhi
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow. – Ralph Ellison
It is not length of life, but depth of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our intention creates our reality. – Wayne Dyer
Life is in ourselves and not in the external. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman
The most wasted of days is one without laughter. – E.E. Cummings
Knowing what must be done does away with fear. – Rosa Parks
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. – John Barrymore
living in reality quotes
I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. – Lady Gaga
Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. – Nikos Kazantzakis
When you argue with reality, you’ll lose. – Byron Katie
In order to write about life first you must live it. – Ernest Hemingway
If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality. – CHRISTOPHER MELONI
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. – Louis
Find out who you are and do it on purpose. – Dolly Parton
I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal. – Groucho Marx
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. – George Orwell
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. – Soren Kierkegaard
accept the reality of life quotes
The best way to deal with reality is to face it.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. – Denis Waitley
Your life’s work determines your legacy and the impact that you have on the world. – Germany Kent
People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality and start questioning it. – Lionel Suggs
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. – Bruce Lee
I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on. – Ashley Rickards
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas. – Stephen King
That’s how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy. – John Ajvide Lindqvist
Accept reality, no matter how difficult it is.
Accepting reality is the first step to dealing with problems, not denying reality.
Reality is what it is. Visionaries triumphed when they accepted reality and used it as a stepping stone rather than an obstacle.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. – Brian Tracy
The imaginary is what tends to become real. – André Breton
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. – Carl Jung
Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. – Roy Bennett
Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger. – Sara Evans
perception is reality quote
Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It’s all about perception. – Tyler Posey
Perception is reality to the one in the experience. – Danielle Bernock
Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that. – Bill Cowher
Miracles are a shift in perception. – Kenneth Wapnick
Science is nothing but perception. – Plato
Your perception may not be my reality. – Aporva Kala
Perception is reality’s dark curtain. – Tom Robbins
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. – Aldous Huxley
With time and experience comes a different perception of what’s going on around you. – Chris Robinson
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. – Alexis Carrel
Reality doesn’t bite, rather our perception of reality bites. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. – Leonardo da Vinci
The perception of reality is often more important than reality itself.
reality quotes about life
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. – Soren Kierkegaard
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it. – Lauryn Hill
Without a purpose in life, happiness will be so difficult to be reached. – Mwanandeke Kindembo
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. – Soren Kierkegaard
Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon
There is no victor in life – for it is a game of expression, not of greed. – Robert Vanleeuwen
Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end. – Marcelene Cox
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. – Bruce Lee
Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. – John Lennon
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. – Henry Ford
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. – Arthur Conan Doyle
reality quotes about love
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss
There is no remedy for love but to love more. – Henry David Thoreau
Love is pure and true; love knows no gender – Tori Spelling
The course of true love never did run smooth. – William Shakespeare
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. – Rosemonde Gerard
Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best. – Gabriela Mistral
I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. – Marilyn Monroe
Expectations are the root of all heartache when it comes to love. – William Shakespeare
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. – Maya Angelou
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle
Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love. – Andy Warhol
When someone else’s happiness is your happiness, that is love. – Lana Del Rey
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. – Jean de La Fontaine
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. – Rosemonde Gerard
reality quotes about relationships
Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships. – Lauryn Hill
Relationships, marriages are ruined where one person continues to learn, develop and grow and the other person stands still. – Catherine Pulsifer
All relationships go through hell, real ones get through it.
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything. – Henri Frederic Amiel
The pain of parting is nothing compared to the joy of meeting again. – Charles Dickens
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. – Audrey Hepburn
You can tell how often a person thinks of you by how often they tell you they think of you. – Mark Boyer
Assumptions are the termites of relationships. – Henry Winkler
Good relationships are no accident. They are the work of joy.
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics. – Joyce Meyer
All relationships go through hell, real relationships get through it.
The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet. – Katharine Lee Bates
We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence. – Cornel West
True love lives in honesty. We work to be honest with ourselves and honest with each other.
reality quotes about friendship
When you can’t look on the brightside, I will sit with you in the dark.
True friends are always together in spirit. – L.M. Montgomery
Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson
There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met. – Jim Henson
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. – Woodrow Wilson
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. – Jean de la Fontaine
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. – Hubert H. Humphrey
To like and dislike the same things, that is what makes a solid friendship. – Sallust
Whoever says friendship is easy has obviously never had a true friend! – Bronwyn Polson
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. – Woodrow Wilson
Friendship isn’t about whom you have known the longest …It’s about who came, and never left your side.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. – John D. Rockefeller
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. – Tennessee Williams
reality quotes about fake friends
Friends are supposed to make you feel better about yourself. Just remember that.
Hatred imprisons the haters; love opens doors. – Debasish Mridha
Fake friends are like soap bubbles. They pop out when the sun shines brightly. – Chiranjude Bird
Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care. – Hachiman Hikigaya
Friends are supposed to make you feel better about yourself. Just remember that.
Fake friends are like autumn leaves, they’re scattered everywhere.
Fake friends are like a pair of shoes. You wear them for a while, but eventually, they wear out and you have to throw them away.
Having fake friends is like hugging cactus. The tighter you hug, the more pain you get. – Riza Prasetyaningsih
One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies… be smart choosing your friends. – Ziad K. Abdelnour
A fake friend is an enemy in disguise. – Ellen J. Barrier
You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage. – Chinonye J. Chudolue
You should be aware of fake friend because it is the hardest to be aware of. – Eraldo Banovac
Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated. – Dean Cavanagh
Fake friends are like autumn leaves; they’re scattered everywhere.
Don’t fear the enemies who attack you, fear the fake friends that hug you.
Fake friends are like penny candies. They’re sweet at first, but eventually, they will make your stomach hurt.
A friend to all, is not a friend to anyone. – Mike Skinner
We never lose friends; fake ones are exposed. – Carlos Wallace
It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it. – Nicole Richie
Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour. – Khalil Gibran
You got nothing to lose. You don’t lose when you lose fake friends. – Joan Jett
Fake friends are around you when they think you are cool. True friends are around you even when they think you are a fool.
Fake friends are like co*ckroaches: they come out when the lights are off.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. – Arnold H. Glasow
Fake friends are like fake eyelashes: they fall off eventually.
Fake friends are like a bad hair day: you just can’t wait to wash them out of your life.
Having fake friends is like hugging cactus. The tighter you hug, the more pain you get. – Riza Prasetyaningsih
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