Top 100 Quotes About Reality (2025 Update)
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51. “The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”

— Terence McKenna

52. “Our intentions create our reality.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

53. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

— Laozi

54. “Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.–Neville Goddard.”

— Neville Goddard

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

— Thich Nhat Hanh

56. “If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

57. “Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.”

— L.R. Knost

58. “Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.”

— Neville Goddard

59. “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.”

— Helen Schucman

60. “The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a ‘semantic disturbance’ is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.”

— Alfred Korzybski

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

— Jared Leto

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

— William James

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

— John C. Maxwell

68. “The future is unwritten.”

— Joe Strummer

69. “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

70. “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

71. “Perception precedes reality.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Walt Disney

73. “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

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

— Earl Nightingale

75. “Science is the poetry of reality.”

— Richard Dawkins

76. “Engineers turn dreams into reality.”

— Hayao Miyazaki

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Frida Kahlo

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

— Rumi

81. “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

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

— C.G. Jung

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

— Deepak Chopra

84. “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

85. “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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Gene Roddenberry

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

— Kurt Cobain

89. “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

90. “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

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

— Terence McKenna

92. “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

93. “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

94. “Reality is negotiable.”

— Tim Ferriss

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— James Earl Jones

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

— Neil Armstrong

99. “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

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

— Virginia Woolf