Reality Quotes
We do not imitate, but are a model to others.
PericlesPericles A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
Mark TwainMark Twain The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.
John F. KennedyJohn F. Kennedy People don’t need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?
Beth MooreBeth Moore I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.
Brad PittBrad Pitt In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau Real beauty is when you’re centered, when our mind is with the truth. That is how every baby is beautiful because they are centered.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
EpictetusEpictetus Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser’s way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
AeschylusAeschylus I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
Susan SontagSusan Sontag I’m happy with the way I did my career, I wouldn’t change it in a million years. I got to do the real grafting and learning from real models when I was younger – how to open up a jacket, walk, and such.
Naomi CampbellNaomi Campbell Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
Calvin CoolidgeCalvin Coolidge