Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 197

It\'s my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
 Roy Blount, Jr.
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.
If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.
If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.
 Gene Stratton-Porter
There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.
 Kumi Naidoo
It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you - when he comes down from the mountain and you see he's this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead.
 Robin Williams
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
 Karl A. Menninger
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It\'s a skill every writer has to acquire.
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.
 Lisa Scottoline
To move freely you must be deeply rooted.
 Bella Lewitzky
Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
 David McCullough Jr.
Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us.
 Angela Bassett
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
 Tom Peters
Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of mind offer you a much more accurate picture of reality.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in color is the legacy of white supremacy.
 Kerry James Marshall
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.
Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.