Actual Life Quotes

Life plays a role of oxymoron. You can't predict the actual sense of it unless you feel it. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy. — Joseph Campbell

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. — Aristotle.

Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events. — Richard Rohr

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. — Sigmund Freud

Wherever she went, whatever she did, part of her mind was always imagining a hypothetical life running parallel to her actual one, — Liane Moriarty

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag. — Dawn French

After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life. — Brock Clarke

You are allowed to float around having no damned idea what you want to do with yourself with no actual time frame in which you need to figure it out. — Brittany Gibbons

Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. With — E. M. Forster

Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life. — Curtis Jackson

This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do. — Winnie Holzman

He regarded conversation as sport, and Lily loved anyone who regarded anything in life as sport (except for actual sports). — Jennifer DuBois

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. — Oscar Wilde

Only this actual moment is life. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself. — African Spir

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life. — Shunryu Suzuki

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. — Sharon Salzberg

I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and I've never been so visible. — Debbie Gibson

The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it. — M.C. Halliday

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion. — Anna Brownell Jameson

Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy

The risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished, but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased. — David Cortright

For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection. — Seth Godin

I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood. — Deb Caletti

For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives. — Woody Allen

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life? — Sandra Chami Kassis

The details of life have a tendency to interfere with the actual living of life. — Richard Diaz

No one gets through life scot-free. Shit happens. I's how you deal with it that shapes you, not the actual event itself. — Sarra Manning

Everything in the world is easier to clean up after than your own actual damn life. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

The actual growth in a person's life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income. — Anuj

I am more emotionally attached to book characters than actual people in my life. — Unknownimous

Today would be perfect in every way. The Facebook photos wouldn't lie. So much joy. Her life had so much so joy. That was an actual verifiable fact. — Liane Moriarty

It's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent. — Andrew James Pritchard

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox. — Robert Walser

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

All actual life is encounter. — Martin Buber

Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. — Nhat Hanh

He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know even if I never saw him again. — Cheryl Strayed

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first step forward in faith. — August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

That's the thing about living vicariously; it's so much faster than actual living. — Audrey Niffenegger

The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life. — Christopher Morley

I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not. — Dorianne Laux

I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life. — Lauren Graham

This is a test. This is only a test. If this was my actual life I'd be famous, rich, and thin. — Becky Adams

The actual God of many Americans ... is simply the current of American life. — Charles Horton Cooley

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever. — Julia Ward Howe

Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers. — Frederick Lenz

It does not matter the number of lives you have led, if deep within, you still feel that you are waiting for your actual life to begin. — Srividya Srinivasan

The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual. — Rob Chapman

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life. — Anthony Trollope

but one never really understood life in the New World until confronted with the actual rude experience. — Michael Crichton

The concern of your brain is not to see the actual nature of reality, but to represent the reality to you in such a way that suits your needs. — Abhijit Naskar

Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them ... — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The same distinction marks off Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. III — Aristotle.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. — Frank Herbert

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends. — James Ishmael Ford

It's not ironic when it's your actual fucking life. — Jennifer Pashley

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves. — Earl Warren

To be a winner in actual you need to be a winner from thoughts first. — Deepak Burfiwala

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse. — John Crowley

The life cycle of public disgrace has been condensed to where the actual offense gets washed away, leaving just a neutral sheen of notoriety. — Mark Leibovich

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius

My actual daddy used to say that if you didn't let some things go, you'd spend your whole life fighting -Anya/Mr. Balanchine — Gabrielle Zevin

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. — Don Herold

The past you lost is just like a dream. As you woke up new life
starts. So, your actual birthday will be your death day. — A.G Sorachi

Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events. — Ana Monnar