Quotes About Reality

Ideas are one thing, and what happens is another.

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.

What else are we gonna live by if not dreams? We need to believe in something. What would really drive us crazy is to believe this reality we run into every day is all there is. If I don't believe that there's a happy ending out there-that will-you-marry-me in the sky-I can't keep working today.

I have found men more kind than I expected, and less just.

If I've learned anything in my seventy years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears.

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway.

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something; to secure it in this world, we must do something.

Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.

No man is a hero to his own wife; no woman is a wife to her own hero.

No man is a hero to his valet.

Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

The material universe exists only in the mind.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.