These real life quotes will inspire you. Real-life means that you can be yourself and not worry about the things that are happening in your life. Life is a journey, it’s not just a destination. Real-life means that you have to face challenges and learn from them. It that you have to make mistakes and learn from them.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging real life quotes, real life sayings, and real life proverbs.
Best Real Life Quotes
- “Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” ~ Simone Weil
- “Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- “One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the ‘enemies’ who appear from time to time in our lives.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
- “It’s good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.” ~ Nelson DeMille
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“The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.” ~ Armistead Maupin
- “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.” ~ James Patterson
- “It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.” ~ Jesse Jackson
- “Don’t be sad by what you see
Its true life has its miseries
But one thing’s always worked for me
Worry ends when faith begins.” ~ Sami Yusuf -
“Not all the monsters have fangs.” ~ Jack London
- “The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That’s not life.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “I couldn’t get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.” ~ Charles Bukowski
- “You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it’s making space without building it” ~ Gordon Matta-Clark
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“The characters can’t be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.” ~ Dylan Moran
- “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” ~ Philip K. Dick
- “Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.” ~ Franz Grillparzer
- “I’M FRUSTRATED, because pop culture, music and movies glorify these types of police citizen altercations and promote an invincible attitude that continues to get young men killed in real life, away from safety movie sets and music studios.” ~ Benjamin Watson
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“In real life, bad things happen and they’re not funny, and then bad things happen and they can be funny. When you’re unhappy you don’t go an entire time without laughing. You don’t go your whole life without laughing. It’s just life.” ~ Jennifer Lawrence
- “It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators all, and I recommend to you this moral: In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.” ~ Ogden Nash
- “Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.” ~ Christina Stead
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“In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life, you realize that there is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems.” ~ Matthew Weiner
- “The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience … The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characteristics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won’t sue.” ~ Wallace Stegner
- “I always drastically changed my look for each role. It’s gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there’s no hiding.” ~ Nick Offerman
- “I’m a much better listener when I’m acting than I am as a person in real life because you learn as an actor that listening is so important. You have to really key into what the other person you’re acting with is saying and how they’re saying it and react in the moment to what is going on.” ~ Rainn Wilson
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“When you write about real life, there’s always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.” ~ Denis Leary
- “Actors are inherently self-centered. We’re trained to focus on who I am. What do I want? Who is in my way? How do I get this? That’s how we’re trained. Unfortunately, that sometimes spills over into real life. But it’s all very subjective. You just try to portray someone beyond the surface, the different layers.” ~ Bryan Cranston
- “I don’t have a sence of style in real life. I’m more like same-clothes-every-day guy. I don’t wear jewelry, I don’t wear any of this.” ~ Ken Jeong
- “My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don’t really do a character thing in stand-up. It’s just a bunch of sentences that are supposed to be funny.” ~ Zach Galifianakis
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“I’m not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don’t really know, I don’t really ever get… at least in real life, I really don’t get recognized. I think people seem to find it very difficult to connect me to characters I’ve played.” ~ Freddie Stroma
- “In real life, when you speak with each other you overlap each other, so you can’t fake that. Like especially when you have no cut. In a regular film when you want people to overlap you cut it that way. It’s mixing and editing.” ~ Julie Delpy
- “Every day on the set, things change. You move things around. The actors are creating the roles and bringing them to life, and bringing the moments to life, as they happen. That’s the best thing about television. I think it gets misunderstood, when there’s one credit that says, “Written by,” because that’s certainly not the way it happens, in real life.” ~ Summer Glau
- “Life begins at six–at least in the minds of six-year-olds. . . . In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down the baby. . . . Every first grader knows in some osmotic way that this is real life. . . . First grade is the first step on the way to a place in the grown-up world.” ~ Stella Chess
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“One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life.” ~ Karl Urban
- “Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that’s going on, so you can indulge the most fantastic, romantic, escapist feelings and fantasies. You can do anything you want. That’s why it’s very seductive and pleasurable to earn your living making movies because you’re not living in the real world.” ~ Woody Allen
- “The thing about the Oscars is real life doesn’t stop. You have to get back to planet Earth the following morning. The rubbish needs taking out. The kids will be crying. They’ll need feeding. Kids do not care whether you’ve been to the Oscars!” ~ Helena Bonham Carter
- “Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It’s all about (appearing) effortless, yet there’s so much effort. You do it the best you can.” ~ Kelli Williams
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“It’s been really important to me to create moments where there’s a breath or moments where there’s a laugh or moments where there’s real-life that’s allowed to seep in through the cracks of whatever melodrama is happening, because that’s what does happen in life.” ~ Sarah Polley
- “Your image as a model is your currency. That’s the only thing you’ve got. No one cares what you look like in real life. Nobody is going to say the make up guy was terrible. They will say, you look awful and let’s not book her again.” ~ Iman Abdulmajid
- “A genuine approach to budget cutting – knowing exactly what you’re cutting and why, and with what real-life consequences – is beyond my competence, and probably beyond the competence of any politician in America.” ~ George Packer
- “There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers who do it. They tend to be really arty and interesting people in real life. At the same time, they have an incredibly rigorous training schedule.” ~ George Nolfi
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“Movies are different from real life.” ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- “I think we’re different, but we are very similar in a lot of ways, and we really complement each other in real life and on screen. Cameron [Diaz], for me, is like the teacher. And Kate’s [Uptone] like my daughter. She’s only five years older than my daughter, and so, I always wanted to protect her.” ~ Leslie Mann
- “The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.” ~ Ayana Mathis
- “Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn’t work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn’t actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you’ve ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn’t read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it’s being spoken, not to make it speakable.” ~ Patrick Rothfuss
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“Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.” ~ Carl Hiaasen
- “Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn’t mean he’s like that in real life.” ~ Randy Savage
- “The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life if it is to be real life, must be based.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “It’s a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.” ~ Andy Andrews
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“I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I’m addicted to – I’m a master at “Angry Birds.”” ~ Salman Rushdie
- “I think people like listening to what I call trippy music but maybe next year it will be something else. I still have gangster tracks and real-life stories and situations in my music. I’ve been blessed because over 20 year, I never stopped doing what I was doing. It’s pretty much the same thing and I’ve never really changed anything up.” ~ Juicy J , Real life quotes situations
- “In real life, I’m such a dorky, happy person. I express myself in three ways: I talk a lot, I write songs and I get tattoos.” ~ Christina Perri
- “I find that the more I depend on real life, the less interesting the story is. It’s much more common for me to take something that almost-happened, or I wish had happened, and then follow that possibility.” ~ Sarah Dessen
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“While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction – which, given the considerable turmoil in my character’s lives, is probably a good thing!” ~ Nicholas Sparks
- “I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is the use of really big events that may or may not happen in real life – certainly they do, but they’re not events that are common to most people. Most of the things that happen in my novels are things that could happen to people in real life.” ~ Nicholas Sparks
- “The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.” ~ Tom Robbins
- “I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to confer a sense of reality on the loss but also because it makes it known that this was a real life.” ~ Judith Butler
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“The minute you walk through the door and your kid runs into your arms, you’re smacked in the face with a dose of reality: It’s like, this is my real life.” ~ Faith Hill
- “I’ll never forget, Christine Woods came up to me on set and she looked at me so seriously and held my hand, and she’s like, “Kether, look at me. In real life, we are beautiful, beautiful women. No one thinks we’re fat. In TV, we are TV fat and we just have to get used to it. Don’t ever take it personally. We’re TV fat. End of story”.” ~ Kether Donohue
- “As the writer you are the puppet-master and can control everything. Believe me, that is a whole lot of fun because it ain’t something that’s going to be happening very often in real life!” ~ Christopher Paul Curtis
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“How are you gonna make an ‘idol’ from the type of person you’re trying to avoid in real life?” ~ Natasha Leggero
- “Small businesses forget how to be social. Everyone tries to do social media when they should just try being social. To be successful with social media, you have to treat each individual person just like you would in real life by establishing a genuine connection with them.” ~ Jeet Banerjee
- “My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.” ~ Kevin Vanhoozer
