Top 40 Quotes About Reality (2024 Update)

1. “The bridge between reality and a dream is work.”

— Jared Leto

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2. “Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.”

— William James

3. “If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

4. “I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”

— Lewis Carroll

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5. “Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

6. “Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

7. “The future is unwritten.”

— Joe Strummer

8. “Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.”

— John C. Maxwell

9. “Never let someone’s opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out.”

— Les Brown

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10. “Do not take life’s experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

11. “Perception precedes reality.”

— Andy Warhol

12. “Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.”

— Walt Disney

13. “Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.”

— Earl Nightingale

14. “Everything is Energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”

— Albert Einstein

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15. “Science is the poetry of reality.”

— Richard Dawkins

16. “Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

17. “There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”

— Jodi Picoult

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18. “Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

— Frida Kahlo

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19. “Engineers turn dreams into reality.”

— Hayao Miyazaki

20. “Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.”

— Rumi

21. “Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.”

— Robert Collier

22. “Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy.”

— Deepak Chopra

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23. “Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”

— Nikola Tesla

24. “Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.”

— C.G. Jung

25. “A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.”

— Alan Watts

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26. “Water is the driving force of all nature.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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27. “Time is the fire in which we burn.”

— Gene Roddenberry

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28. “We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.”

— Kurt Cobain

29. “Change your thinking. Change your life! Your thoughts create your reality. Practice positive thinking. Act the way you want to be, and soon you will be the way you act.”

— Les Brown

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30. “The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.”

— Khalil Gibran

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31. “Only psychos and shamans create their own reality.”

— Terence McKenna

32. “In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.”

— Nhat Hanh

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33. “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”

— Albert Einstein

34. “The lower you fall, the higher you’ll fly.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

35. “Reality is negotiable.”

— Tim Ferriss

36. “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

37. “One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.”

— James Earl Jones

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38. “Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.”

— Neil Armstrong

39. “I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”

— Leonard Cohen

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40. “I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.”

— Virginia Woolf

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