Best Reality Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.”

“When there is both name and reality,”

“If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.”

“For those who would die, there is life. For those who would dream, there is reality. For those who would hope, there is knowledge. For those who would grow, there is eternity.”

“She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking.”

“I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.”

“Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.”

“Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change”

“Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.”

“Due to Mom’s condition, she would attack “The Walls” from sun-up to sun-down and day after day due to her mentalparanoia. With the death of her sister, no barrier, partition, fence, or any standing surface would’ve been safe. That kind of trauma would’ve created an endless loop of rages such as: “Oh no! Oh no! Not my sister, you Devil Ass Dawg! Oh Jesus, those Dead Dawg have come and taken my sister away! Help me Jesus! Help me get those Dawg out of my house! Lawd, I can’t take these Dawg howling anymore! Lawd Jesus, bring her back! Lawd, bring her back!”

“This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!”

“Perception isn’t reality—it’s a reflection. You’re not seeing the world as it is; you’re seeing what you’ve been rehearsing in your mind. What you focus on, you fuel. Change the lens, change the life.”

“You weren't born to whisper through life. You were made to dance barefoot on the tables, laugh too loud, and shatter every invisible shackle with a wink and a wild idea. This is what alive feels like when unrestrained, unedited and unapologetic about who you are.”

“Does that diminish my own experience, because someone has it worse? There's always someone with a shittier life than yours. That doesn't turn the shit in your life into roses.”

“Stay within your limits, you can do great things in life.”

“For some people, success is not a possibility because they have already immersed themselves in the well of negativity. Avoid such people if you want success to become your reality.”

“Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.”

“We live in the world of Point-Of-Views, not the truth”

“She brushed up against her own potential - and saw the ceiling for what it was: imagined restraint, never meant for her.”

“A free spirit lives a free life, not bound by rules but guided by wonder, and in their wake they inspire others to keep their inner child alive, fearless, forever curious.”

“Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.”

“Robert again faced the sky. “That is a children’s dream, Marian. We are old enough that we must think of realities.”

“If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn't make it so. Words and thoughts don’t change anything. Language and reality are kept strictly apart — reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn't care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn't. You deal with it, and you get on with your life.”

“Goals want to realize themselves.”

“A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.”

“I welcome questions. I hate assumptions.”

“We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”

“Fellow-wanderer,”

“The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …”

“If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, ‘You’re out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?’ But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.”