Quotes About Reality

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

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.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Short of genius, a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human 1 relationships.

Principles become modified in practise by facts.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life, and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

No one is happy all his life long.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Real life is, to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.