100+ Quotes About Life Reality That Are Relatable

Life is a journey you take from the moment you’re born. These quotes about life’s reality are relatable and will help you express how you feel. Life is full of ups and downs sometimes, things go exactly as we hope, and other times, unexpected life struggles come your way. It’s important to know that everyone faces difficulties.

Just like the weather, life can be unpredictable. There will be sunny days when everything feels great, and there will be rainy days when things seem tough. But it’s essential to remember that both sunshine and rain are part of what makes life interesting and meaningful.

We all have our unique paths and life experiences. Learning and growing are big parts of life. We make mistakes in life, and we learn from them. We celebrate our achievements, no matter how small. Through it all, you will become wiser and stronger. Below you will find the quotes about life reality. Check them out!

Quotes about life’s reality

• “Your unhappiness is the gap between what you feel you deserve and what you get.” ― Anupam S Shlok
• “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations” ― Jodi Picoult
• “If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavour.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
• “I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.” ― Hunter S. Thompson
• “People are waves. They come and they go. And no two waves are alike.” ― Soroosh Shahrivar

• “Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.” ― Earl Nightingale
• “Reality isn’t the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be but the way they actually are.” ― Robert Ringer
• “The truth is that adults are just like everyone else: nothing more than kids without a clue about what has happened to them, acting big and tough when in fact all they want is to burst into tears.” ― Muriel Barbery

• “Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.” ― Gary Zukav
• “Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.” ― Ralph Marston

• “The grass is always greener on the other side – until you get there and see it’s AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn’t mean they’re happy. So, don’t go judging a person’s life by the cover.” ― Karen Salmansohn
• “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” ― Colin Powell
• “Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.” ― Patrick Ness

• “Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realise it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.” ― Sai Baba
• “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.” ― Elizabeth Edwards
• “Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.” ― Alex Haley

• “You know what, sometimes it seems to me we’re living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what’s good and what isn’t, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves… And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.” ― Olga Tokarczuk
• “It’s very unfortunate that people spend whole to show off their shallow love on internet than to live and enjoy the moments in real life. The data they’ll left behind may important as a footprint but the moments, people & time what they get today will never return so easily is an only truth of life.” ― Sonal Takalkar
• “We can transform reality to the extent that we influence what happens in consciousness and thus free ourselves from the threats and blandishments of the outside world.” ― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one’s nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.” ― Deepak Chopra

Life is made up of small moments that come together to create our story. Even though things change, we can find meaning in learning, growing, and appreciating the simple things. It’s about enjoying what we have now while also looking forward to what’s ahead. Below you will find the famous quotes about life reality, check them out!

Famous quotes about life reality

• “People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” ― Albert Einstein
• “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me.” ― Erma Bombeck
• “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle
• “Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” ― Richard Bach
• “The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.” ― Daniel Webster
• “There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.” ― Hermann Hesse

• “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ― Albert Einstein
• “Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.” ― Eliyahu Goldratt

• “The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.” ― John F. Kennedy
• “Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.” ― Jose Ortega y Gasset
• “The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.” ― Rollo May

• “When we die our money, fame, and honours will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.” ― Michael Huffington
• “Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.” ― John Gardner

• “It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you think should happen is unreal. So people are hurt by their expectations. You know , you’re not disappointed by the world, you are disappointed by your own projections.” ― Jacque Fresco
• “I’m not an optimist. I’m a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.” ― Octavia Spencer

• “Things change, perceptions change, realities change, and yet you know all those changes do not reflect the real reality of humankind, but rather our perceptions of reality. The majority of human beings are products of their environments. A rare few are the creators of their environments, and even rarer are those who create new environments.” ― Rajinder Jhol
• “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.” ― George Washington Carver

• “Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems – but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.” ― Salman Rushdie
• “I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision – they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.” ― Ansel Adams

These short quotes about life reality will help you express how you feel. Check them out!

Short quotes about life reality

• “Perception is reality.” ― Lee Atwater
• “Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.” ― Francesca Zappia,
• “It’s impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill.” ― Franz Kafka
• “Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Laozi
• “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost
• “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ― Soren Kierkegaard

• “What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” ― Wayne Dyer
• “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” ― Alan Wilson Watts
• “Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t handle drugs.” ― Robin Williams

• “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” ― William Wallace
• “Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.” ― Pablo Picasso
• “Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.” ― Kemi Sogunle
• “All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
• “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” ― Chuck Palahniuk

• “The new media are not ways of relating to us the ‘real’ world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.” ― Marshall McLuhan
• “Your awareness of this second — this moment — will be your only true reality.” ― Eric Overby
• “A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.” ― James Allen

• “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” ― Henry David Thoreau
• “Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?” ― George A. Moore

Life is like a big adventure with happy and sad moments. Sometimes things go well, and other times they’re tough. The sad quotes about life’s reality will help you picture the sad reality of life.

Sad quotes about life reality

• “Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.” ― Anonymous
• “The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” ― Marcus Aurelius
• “The sad reality of life is, the older you get, the more people; even so-called blood related family members distance themselves and let you down!” ― Lily Amis
• “Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.” ― Alice Sebold
• “Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?” ― Justin Alcala

• “I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.” ― Neil Gaima
• “We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.” ― C.S. Lewis

• “I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful, only then do I find myself and feel comforted.” ― Fernando Pessoa
• “When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

• “Every time you mistreat someone, you reveal the part of you that lacks love and needs to heal.” ― Kemi Sogunle
• “You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.” ― Neil Gaiman
• “I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” ― Joseph Campbell

• “At the end of day we’d all do whatever it takes to survive. I suppose that’s what’s so scary about humans; we’re all just animals with the possibility of higher intelligence. Combine that with bad morals and you have a monster.” ― Oli Marque
• “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.” ― Eminem

• “Failures make you humble, they make you realize that you are not the center of the world, proving that we are all alike, and they also shower you with wisdom. That’s why I have always been a great fan of failures as they offer you more than success can.” ― Neeraj Agnihotri
• “Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?” ― Jandy Nelson

• “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” ― Mark Twain
• “Truth: Life never gives you what you want. It always gives you what you need. Part of growing up is learning how to turn lemons into lemonade. Reality: I thought it would be so easy.” ― Margaret Nwali

• “This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!” ― John Muir

“Life is full of fickleness and we get scared at every moment. And there is no place where this element is absent. But its effect is different in every person. Fear won’t knock with prior knowledge; its appearances are always full of surprising facts.” ― Anurag Mehta,

Inspirational quotes about life reality

• “Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.” ― Byron Katie

• “We can make our mistakes and love each other despite how broken we are, how much we have hurt each other. We can love each other through the pain, because we a fighters, that is simply our nature. To keep fighting, no matter what. What does it matter if we do not fight for an honourable cause? You will be the death of me, and I you, and that is as honourable a death as any. I will die in your worship and you will die in mine.” ― Cassandrius
• “It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” ― Germany Kent

• “You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you’re incapable of… If you think you’re incapable of running a company, make that your aim… Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible.” ― Paul Arden
• “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” ― Jesse Owens

• “Never say that you can’t do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can’t be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.” ― Albert Einstein
• “believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.” ― Rosa Parks

• “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Laozi
• “Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virus prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be it’s conqueror.” ― Mike Norton

• “When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life.” ― Mark Manson
• “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.” ― Elizabeth Edwards

• “It’s just that you’re about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don’t let appearances fool you. There’s always only one reality.” ― Haruki Murakami
• “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.

• “Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.” ―  Don Miguel Ruiz
• “Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.” ― Travis Bradberry

• “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
• “You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman

• “The more you are positive and say, ‘I want to have a good life,’ the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.” ― Chris Pine
• “The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality. Once you do that, you’ll be clear enough to deal with what’s left.” ― Michael A. Singer
• “There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you’re entering and feel defeated when you see the gap between the ideal and the reality… But that’s something we’ll all face. The people that face those obstacles and overcome them are people whose dreams come true.” ― Tsugumi Ohba

“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humour, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.” ― Robert Collier

Conclusion

Life is hard sometimes, it is a remarkable adventure full of surprises, life struggles, and moments of joy. The quotes about life’s reality capture the depths of life. It’s a journey we all share, with its ups and downs, like a roller coaster ride. Your focus should be on how to live life fully and reach your potential.

Embrace the unpredictability of life, knowing that each moment, whether sunny or rainy, contributes to the person you are becoming. Focus on positive life quotes and keep pushing no matter the situation. Cherish the people who support you and treasure the beauty of every step along the way.