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Real Quotes Worth Reading Twice

99 % of reality is invisible. – Buckminster Fuller

Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak. – Woody Allen

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. – Gertrude Stein

Dreams are irresistible, but they will never match reality when it finally appears. – Seth Godin

Everything is energy. That is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy this is physics. – Albert Einstein

Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso

For the brain, there is no illusion, good and bad, normal and perverse, sanity and insanity. Reality is whatever the brain is doing. – John Brockman

Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other. There is, in any case, a parting of the ways. Whoever realises this will do cleaner work one way or the other. – Ernst Jünger

I have no words for my reality. – Max Frisch

I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has needed me. My looking ripens things and they come toward me, to meet and be met. – Rainer Maria Rilke

I refuse to be intimidated by reality. What is reality anyway? Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. – Lily Tomlin

I see no dividing line between imagination and reality. – Federico Fellini

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being. It is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. – Graham Greene

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. – Rumi

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

Maturity starts with the realization that no-one is coming to the rescue. – Brian Tracy 

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man, he, himself. – Gabriel Heatter

Myths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired, they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from. – Joseph Campbell

Nobody realises that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. – Albert Camus

Once in a while, it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. – Alan Keightley

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition. – Alvin Toffler

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there. – Richard Feynman

People don’t realize we have these built-in seven-league-boots. – Patti Smith

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. – Albert Camus

Reality can destroy the dream, why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality? – George Moore

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. – Albert Einstein

Reality is not always probable, or likely. – Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. – Wallace Stevens

The atoms and molecules within you dream they are people.  How real their dream is to you! How deep a trance is your life. – Seth Godin

The key to success is understanding the difference between what’s really going on and what we wish/think/hope is going on… The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle, the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were. – Jack Welch

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets. – John Lennon

The more you know, the more you realize how much you don’t know. The less you know, the more you think you know. – David T. Freeman

The only real way to influence your future is by what you do in the present. – Tony Robbins

The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ. – Thomas Jefferson

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours. – Thomas Edison

The real secret of success is enthusiasm. – Walter Chrysler

When you genuinely enjoy your life, you are successful in the only real meaning of the term. – Tom Russell

The world changes according to the way people see it. If you alter, even but a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it. – James Baldwin

There are many ways to be free. One way is to transcend reality by imagination. – Anaïs Nin

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. – Margaret Peters

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know. – Stephen Covey

To realize a dream, you must have a dream to realize. – Mark Victor Hansen

To realise one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation. – Paulo Coelho

To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow. – Eugene Ionesco

Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is. – Marianne Williamson

Vision is the course one follows to make dreams reality. – Andy Stanley

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. – Pablo Picasso

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. – Maxwell Maltz

We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream. – Roald Dahl

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination. – Terence McKenna

When you argue with reality, you lose, only 100% of the time. – Byron Katie

When you realise how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. – Buddha

Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. – Susan Sontag

You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius

You know how when you visualize something every day, to such a degree that you can literately taste its reality? And you believe in the likelihood of its manifestation with all your heart and soul? And as often as you think of it, in at least some small way, you prepare for its arrival? Yet still absolutely nothing happens? Right! That’s impossible. – Mike Dooley

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Theodor ‘Dr. Seuss’ Geisel

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – Buckminster Fuller

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a real experience, or between a real failure and an imagined failure. In either case, it reacts appropriately to what you think or imagine to be true. – Maxwell Maltz

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