Ray Dalio Quotes

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

In showbiz one minute you're up there making thousands of people laugh, next minute you're picking up toffees, you know it's real life.

You can't shelter yourself from the world.

We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.

If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

Life is not always what we think it is.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.

I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.

Every morning, I shall concern myself anew about the boundary, Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No, And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid, Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion, To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

You are living in a dream of your own creation. Let it be the dream of a lifetime, for that is exactly what it is.

Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.

All nature seems at work.

There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.

Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not.