82 Quotes About Reality Check

Sometimes we can think we’re having a really good day and then we find out that we’re totally wrong. While there’s nothing you can do about it, it is nice to remind ourselves of this fact every once in a while. If you’re feeling like you’ve been fooled by your own reality check quotes, look no further.

The life of every man is a diary in which...
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. J.m. Barrie
Life is difficult.
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Life is difficult. M. Scott Peck
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There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has eaten these, residual shit to lick out of her anus. He prays that she'll let him drop the cape over himself, to be allowed, in the silk-lined darkness, to stay a while longer with his submissive tongue straining upward into her asshole. But she moves away. The fur evaporates from his hands. She orders him to masturbate for her. She has watched Captain Blicero with Gottfried, and has learned the proper style. Thomas Pynchon
I'm joking when I say I'm the grand-pop of those...
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I'm joking when I say I'm the grand-pop of those claiming to be an avatar-messiah or god. But if they're serious, then, I am who I am. Fakeer Ishavardas
Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky...
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Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy-fairy sod. He prefers I call him Mr. NOT. Fakeer Ishavardas
When you address and acknowledge unpleasant realities, your creativity begins...
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When you address and acknowledge unpleasant realities, your creativity begins to soar and you come up with apparently magical solutions to problems. Dr. Dragos
Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to...
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Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality. Germany Kent
If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's...
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If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so. Lev Grossman
I wouldn't doubt it for a second if any of...
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I wouldn't doubt it for a second if any of these literature teachers had a hand-sculpted custom-made replica of Shakespeare's dick. Eliza Gubbins
Science is good, is not God.
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Science is good, is not God. Fakeer Ishavardas
Don't spend your life wondering
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Don't spend your life wondering "what if" and worrying over something you have no control. What's done is done. Looking backwards will cause you to miss out on new blessings ahead. Move on. Germany Kent
I had an enemy - myself. Getting rid of the...
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I had an enemy - myself. Getting rid of the ego-self, in came the Self. Now, here, there, everywhere is nothing else. Just One Self. Fakeer Ishavardas
After you die, a rare friend or family member may...
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After you die, a rare friend or family member may carry your memory throughout life. Most will forget you. As if you were never here. Fakeer Ishavardas
If your believed in book-told god is a silly sod,...
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If your believed in book-told god is a silly sod, you too are. Fakeer Ishavardas
Don't, but if at all, then, lie to the whole...
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Don't, but if at all, then, lie to the whole damn world - never to your own damn, silly stupid self. Fakeer Ishavardas
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[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men — and learned men among them — have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking and in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their behaviour. Not only one or two .. but, more generally, from the treatises of all philosophers and poets and from all the orators — it would take too long to mention their names — it seems that they all speak from one and the same mouth. Thinking deeply about these matters, I began to examine my character and conduct as a natural woman and, similarly, I considered other women whose company I frequently kept, princesses, great ladies, women of the middle and lower classes, who had graciously told me of their most private and intimate thoughts, hoping that I could judge impartially and in good conscience whether the testimony of so many notable men could be true. To the best of my knowledge, no matter how long I confronted or dissected the problem, I could not see or realise how their claims could be true when compared to the natural behaviour and character of women. Christine De Pizan
Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires...
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Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological. Suzy Kassem
Staring down the reality of war, far from home, asleep...
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Staring down the reality of war, far from home, asleep among strangers, that familiarity, those memories, those ties kept us going; gave us a reason to persevere; toughened us up. Carlos Wallace
Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.
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Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare. Rachel Cohn
You can choose daily to brace up and face the...
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You can choose daily to brace up and face the harsh realities of life .. . Or while away the days that come by daydreaming .. . Better still, you can make your dreams your realities. Ufuoma Apoki
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Some people walk through a hallway with covered mirrors— the hallway is lined with mirrors but there are blankets covering each of them. They go through life believing in an image of themselves that isn't real, and an image of themselves standing in the world and relative to the world, that isn't real. If you happen to be in that hallway and pull the blankets off the mirrors, they're going to think that you're hurting them; but they're actually just seeing their reflection for the first time. Sometimes the most horrendous thing a person can see, is all the hidden things inside them, the things they've covered, the things they choose not look at. And you're not hurting them, you're setting them free. C. Joybell C.
Look in the mirror and be sure you're living out...
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Look in the mirror and be sure you're living out the person you see and not a shadow. Kemi Sogunle
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Empowered Women 101: Everyone wants to be a princess, but you weren't the first princess in his life. They scrubbed his floors, washed his workout clothes, picked up his dirty socks and dealt with his issues. Always remember that history leaves a pattern of what to expect. A real woman knows that the bible is a motivator, but the real instruction manual is observing the last woman's struggle. Shannon L. Alder
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I’d like to think that the day I realize we will always be miserable will differ from every other. I hope it will so obnoxiously stand out from the monotonous cycle of my days, that I wouldn’t forget that sorrowful moment of comprehension. But, when that breeze of reality comes by, it wont be a memorable hurricane, nor a momentous tornado. It will be the same, sad, soft wind that I felt the day before, and the day before that. Because the moment you understand your inevitable misery in life, may also be the day you see you are to always be dejected. Temperance
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Gay people getting married is not a threat to the institution of marriage. You know what's a threat to the institution of marriage? Infidelity is! Hate is! Unforgiveness is! Apathy is! Coldheartedness is! Fear is! And you know what's a threat to the kids? It’s not having gay parents! Most gay kids have straight parents! And plenty of gay parents raise respectable, straight kids! The threat to children isn't their parents being gay; the threat to children is their parents not loving one another! Not caring for one another! Not being crazy about each other! Domestic violence is a threat to children. Stupidity is a threat to children. A swimming pool in the backyard with no supervision is a threat to children!. C. Joybell C.
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In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness Rasheed Ogunlaru
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If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you. Esther Hicks
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You don't get to become someone's hero unless you are already another's monster. Adhish Mazumder
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If they keep coming back to you, it isn't love. It is because you made yourself and easy option. The moment the thing they truly want becomes less difficult to obtain is when you will realize that your worth was on sale. Shannon L. Alder
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All our emotions are real, but one has to be quite cautious with what supports their reality. Aleksandra Ninkovic
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You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard. Hillary Rodham Clinton
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The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
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We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us. Nenia Campbell
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Faith and belief are not measured by the size of the miracle but the integrity of our soul. Charles F. Glassman
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Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before." He got out of bed." It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over."" Let me alone, " said Mildred. "I didn't do anyt. Ray Bradbury
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It’s not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be. In actuality, or in each reality, underneath it all– I mean, behind it–the answer lies in Chris Campanioni
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People have sex, even the religious ones. Yet, when sex is transferred into words, suddenly it's dirty, vulgar, immoral, trashy. Funny huh? Hector Himeros
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If you want to be a successful writer you have to put your butt in the chair and your fingers on the keyboard and put words on the page. Even shitty words are better than no words. You can go back and fix them later. Liliana Hart
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You are given a life, a death. Understand both while living, and before dying. Or you'd have wasted a life, a death. Fakeer Ishavardas
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Carpe DiemBy Edna StewartShakespeare, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman did it, why can't I?The words of Horace, his laconic phrase. Does it amuse me or frighten me? Does it rub salt in an old wound? Horace, Shakespeare, Robert Frost and Walt Whitman my loves, we've all had a taste of the devils carpe of forbidden food. My belly is full of mourning over life mishaps of should have's, missed pleasure, and why was I ever born? The leaf falls from the trees from which it was born in and cascade down like a feather that tumbles and toil in the wind. One gush! It blows away. It’s trampled, raked, burned and finally turns to ashes which fades away like the leaves of grass. Did Horace get it right? Trust in nothing? The shortness of Life is seventy years, Robert Frost and Whitman bared more, but Shakespeare did not. Butterflies of Curiosities allures me more. Man is mortal, the fruit is ripe. Seize more my darling! Enjoy the day. Edna Stewart
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They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms length rather than falling into the arms of infidelity. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The metaphysical truth and the end reality is simply this - you are All. Infinite Oneness. Consciousness is but only a part of it. So, you're consciousness, and yet more. You're the Whole. Thus is 'That'. Get it. Fakeer Ishavardas
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Do you know how many people would give anything for what you have? Not the fame or wealth–the opportunity to wake up tomorrow healthy, pain free and with a future stretching out before them? Sarah Grimm
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When you’re gone and people remember you, what will they say about you? That you were happy, generous and kind? That you loved big? Or that you were the drunken singer in a rock band? Sarah Grimm
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I plan to live my own way. Hopefully, it is as per God's Way. Fakeer Ishavardas
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One of the biggest challenge in life is to see things for what they are instead of what you want them to be. Saahil Prem
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If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs and able to weather the thunder. Not a baby that still needs to be defended. Martyn V. Halm
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The god of fools is a fool just like them. Fakeer Ishavardas
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Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend. Michael Bassey Johnson
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And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: "It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are! C. Joybell C.
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Testing the wrong person can prove a massive failure for the antagonist. Carlos Wallace
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... failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525) Franz Werfel
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When I was in the Navy, everyone fell under the purview of “navy gray”. It is the military’s way of reminding its enlisted personnel that they are all equal. Man or woman, black or white, young or old, everyone was navy gray. With God's grace I can proudly say a better understanding of this concept has helped me ameliorate disputes, mend fences that appeared hopeless and find light in the midst of darkness. . Carlos Wallace
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We live in a world with an ever-growing population. Personal space these days is at a premium. Physically, we are practically tripping over our fellow man. Mentally and spiritually, the divide among us seems to widen. Carlos Wallace
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Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving.... AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intravenous drug use. It is simply an opportunistic virus that does what it has to do to stay alive. Chris Crutcher
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I do not want to sound cynical or condescending, but your lips are moving, your mind unbending. Fakeer Ishavardas
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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases Thomas Browne
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She had assumed they would see each other every day but she hadn’t really thought about the implications of having an affair with a married man. It wasn’t going to be a normal relationship. Kassandra Cross
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Not God, but man-made gods kill, by self-will. Fakeer Ishavardas
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No book dropped from "up there". If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head. Fakeer Ishavardas
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Uncertainty is a temptress. We may try our best to avoid her. But what is certain is that at some point of time, she will find us. The only question that remains is whether like Medusa, she will paralyze you, or whether like one of the nine muses of ancient Greece, she will drive you to greater things. Richie Singh
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Humans are mostly kind only to their own-self, and their own. To another being, they're mostly indifferent, if not inhumane. Fakeer Ishavardas
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Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence. Fakeer Ishavardas
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It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING.After all Love is a Vern, it must be demonstrated genuinely. Robert Junior
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It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING.After all Love is a Verb, it must be demonstrated genuinely. Robert Junior
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It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time. Alice Walsh
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Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter. Vann Chow
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The 'Good News' is, the messiah cometh. The bad news is, he never does. Fakeer Ishavardas
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Life is too short to bullshit. Fakeer Ishavardas
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Your time is your life. Elizabeth Grace Saunders
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And how is your head? Better?" he asked." Very much. Sometimes it hurts." Right now it was throbbing. "But every day I am much improved."" Where did you hit it? Are you bruised?" I put a hand to the back of my head, a little to the left, where I had landed with such jarring force. "Here, " I said. "It's still a little tender." And leaning forward, he touched my hair right where I had just laid my hand. Such was he glamour that attended him that I expected the ache to instantly melt away, healed by his royal caress. But in fact, I felt a sudden leap in my heart that made the pain briefly more intense. . Sharon Shinn
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America is still AmeriKKKa. rather we like it or not Fee Scott
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LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he were fighting with himself than with Hickey) I'm afraid to live, am I?--and even more afraid to die! So I sit here, with my pride drowned on the bottom of a bottle, keeping drunk so I won't see myself shaking in my britches with fright, or hear myself whining and praying: Beloved Christ, let me live a little longer at any price! If it's only for a few days more, or a few hours even, have mercy, Almighty God, and let me still clutch greedily to my yellow heart this sweet treasure, this jewel beyond price, the dirty, stinking bit of withered old flesh which is my beautiful little life! (He laughs with a sneering, vindictive self-loathing, staring inward at himself with contempt and hatred. Then abruptly he makes Hickey again the antagonist.) You think you'll make me admit that to myself? . Eugene ONeill
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Living is a constant process of debunking our romantic notions of how our personal life will unfold. Reality oftentimes fails to meet a person’s glamorous expectations. Kilroy J. Oldster
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The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be. Dianna Hardy
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But like all moments trapped in time, that moment would end and Joey Boldt, as all the greats before him did, would begin to understand that clinging too tightly to anything results in Time and Fate shaking you until you can't hold on any longer. And then, when you are knocked for a six and lose your grip, they allow you to spiral into a freefall where men are broken and legends are made. Melodie Ramone
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So, your god is the only god? Okay, but then, so is my dog. Fakeer Ishavardas
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Don't be about just any life. Be about the life you want to be about. Elias Williams
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And this, " cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully. Jane Austen
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It was Colonel Parkman who upped stakes, crossed the border, and named our town, thus perversely commemorating a battle in which he'd lost. (Though perhaps that's not so unusual: many people take a curatorial interest in their own scars.) He's shown astride his horse, waving a sword and about to gallop into the nearby petunia bed: a craggy man with seasoned eyes and pointed beard, every sculptor's idea of every cavalry leader. No one knows what Colonel Parkman really looked like, since he left no pictorial evidence of himself and the statue wasn't erected until 1885, but he looks like this now. Such is the tyranny of Art.On the left-hand side of the lawn, also with a petunia bed, is an equally mythic figure: the Weary Soldier, his three top shirt buttons undone, his neck bowed as if for the headman's axe, his uniform rumpled, his helmet askew, leaning on his malfunctioning Ross rifle. Forever young, forever exhausted, he tops the War Memorial, his skin burning green in the sun, pigeon droppings running down his face like tears. Margaret Atwood
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â€â€¹Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. Margaret Atwood