Reality Of Life Quotes

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  Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

  Philip K. Dick

  Atheist, Real, Believe

  Valis ch. 5 (1981). Originally appeared in a 1978 lecture by Dick entitled "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart in Two Days." See Paktor 1

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  A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Dream, Determination

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  People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Attitude, Freedom

  "Disturbing the Universe" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 17, (p. 193), 1979.

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Sunday Herald Sun (Australia), January 13, 2003.

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Cheer Up, Reality

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Reality is not always probable, or likely.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Life, Reality, Probable Cause

  "Worldwide Laws of Life : 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles". Book by John Templeton, 1998.

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

  Al Meyerhoff

  Reality, Environmental, Toxic

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• It is not true that if we had true faith we would not be sad. Prophets (as), and righteous people experienced a great deal of sadness. The Quran is full of stories in which the central theme is sadness. Sadness is a reality of life. The Quran is not there to eliminate sadness, but to navigate it. Sadness is one of the tests of life, just as happiness, and anger are tests.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Sadness, Reality, People

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• There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love, Dream, Believe

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

  Jean Anouilh

  Art, Mistake, Believe

  Jean Anouilh, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Kitty Black (1961). “The rehearsal: a play in three acts”

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• The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective ways of organizing and using the material. For content and form are interrelated. The problems presented by content and form must be so developed that the result is fundimentally [sic] true to the realities of life as we know it. The chief problem is to find a form that adequately represents the reality.

  Paul Strand

  Real, Cameras, Records

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• I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.

  Matt Chandler

  Christian, Hurt, Lying

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• In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

  Jonah Goldberg

  War, Reality, Government

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• Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Eye, Reality

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dear young people, please, don’t be observers of life, but get involved. Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself. Don’t be observers, but immerse yourself in the reality of life, as Jesus did.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Reality, People

  Pope Francis' address to the Prayer Vigil with the young people during the apostolic journey to Rio de Janeiro on the occasion of the XXVIII World Youth Day, at Waterfront of Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, w2.vatican.va. July 27, 2013.

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• The energies represented by the four #‎ elements are ulitimately the fundamental realities of life that are being analysed with #‎ astrology

  Stephen Arroyo

  Reality, Four Elements, Astrology

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• Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Reality, Thinking, Triumph

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• I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, "My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds." That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Wise, Wall, Heart

  "Deposition of a Disciple". Book by Neal A. Maxwell, Deseret Book Co. (Salt Lake City), p. 5, 1976.

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• All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.

  Karlfried Graf Durckheim

  Reality, Silence, Hearing

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• The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Gay, Reality, Inspire

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• Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Dream, Teenager, Loss

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.208, David C Cook

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• I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

  John Mason Brown

  Reality, Long, Enough

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