80 Reality Quotes and Sayings
Reality is the best teacher for human beings. Life’s best lessons are learnt only after accepting and facing reality of life. Here are best Reality Quotes and saying to make you more tranquil.
Reality Quotes
- “The ego‘s job is to trick “you” out of touch with reality.” – Byron Katie
- “Reality is only available to the one who does not reject it.” – James Pierce
- “Don’t be afraid to have a reality check. Taking risks is OK, but you must be realistic.” – Joy Mangano
- “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip K. Dick
- “Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.” – Iyanla Vanzant
- “Our intention creates our reality.” – Wayne Dyer
- “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” – Malala Yousafzai
- “Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.” – Les Brown
- “The real world is where the monsters are.” – Rick Riordan
- “We perceive reality based on how our brain is wired.” – Joe Dispenza
Quotes about Reality
- “Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.” – Anthony de Mello
- “Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.” – Alex Haley
- “If you don’t learn from reality, reality will force the lesson down your throat until you either swallow it or choke to death.” – Ed Latimore
- “When you argue with reality, you’ll lose.” – Byron Katie
- “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” – Lewis Carroll
- “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” – Philip K. Dick
- “Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.” – Gustave Flaubert
- “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
- “There is no unique picture of reality.” – Stephen Hawking
- “If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.” – Robert Musil
Best Reality Quotes
- “The best persuaders modify the story in real time to overtake your reality. And they never look like persuaders.” – Angela Jiang
- “Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.” – Michelle Hodkin
- “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.” – George Orwell
- “Reality is that which, when you stop believing it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip K. Dick
- “There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” – Desiderius Erasmus
- “Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.” – Alexis Carrel
- “Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it.” – Charlie Munger
- “There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” – Douglas H. Everett
- “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard
- “The longer we wait to deal with reality the bigger the price tag.” – Shane Parrish
Reality Inspiring Short Quotes
- “I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.” – Ice Cube
- “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” – T. S. Eliot
- “You create your own reality.” – Jane Roberts
- “Problems only exist in your mind, not in reality.” – Dan Koe
- “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Plutarch
- “I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo
- “Reality is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.” – C.S. Lewis
- “You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.” – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- “Reality is one of the possibilities that I cannot afford to ignore.” – Leonard Cohen
- “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” – Lloyd Alexander
Reality Quotes
- “So long as you can be persuaded that there is something more that you ought to be than you are, you have divided yourself from reality.” – Alan Watts
- “You can’t just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality.” – Steve Maraboli
- “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” – Tom Clancy
- “There is nothing more important than understanding how reality works and how to deal with it.” – Ray Dalio
- “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
- “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” – Ayn Rand
- “The reality is great highs, terrible lows and unrelenting stress. Don’t think people want to hear about the last two.” – Elon Musk
- “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.” – Shirley Jackson
- “Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.” – Jane Wagner
- “Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.” – Patrick Ness
Inspirational Reality Quotes
- “Surround yourself with more people who have the reality you want.” – Gal Shapira
- “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” – Seneca
- “Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.” – Ralph Marston
- “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” – Rachel Carson
- “To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.” – Ai Yazawa
- “There is no point in using the word ‘impossible’ to describe something that has clearly happened.” – Douglas Adams
- “Your consciousness is actually experiencing your mental model of reality, not reality itself.” – Michael A. Singer
- “We don’t live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.” – Bryan Singer
- “We don’t see things as they are – we see them as we expect them to be.” – Adam Grant
Famous Reality Quotes
- “If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.” – Terrell Owens
- “When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.” – Byron Katie
- “If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.” – Bodhidharma
- “Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.” – Plato
- “Within the stillness of meditation we see the unreality of thought.” – Jack Kornfield
- “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” – Robertson Davies
- “Clear thinkers take feedback from reality, not society.” – Naval Ravikant
- “The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.” – John Lennon
- “If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.” – Sri Chinmoy
- “If you think something should happen and it doesn’t, you are mistaken. Reality is never wrong.” – James Pierce
Popular Reality Quotes
- “Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.” – Simone Weil
- “Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.” – Jack Welch
- “Reality is just a dream that one can never awaken from.” – Thibaut
- “It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” – Robert H. Goddard
- “In dreams you don’t need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don’t exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don’t hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites.” – Haruki Murakami
- “The difference between the expert and the average in any field is the speed at which they adapt to reality.” – Shane Parrish
- “You couldn’t hide from bad things and pretend they didn’t exist, that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.” – Sarah Cross
- “Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.” – Alice Sebold
- “Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.” – Rabindranath Tagore
- “To wear dreams on one’s feet is to begin to give a reality to one’s dreams.” – Roger Vivier
