Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 215

There\'s actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.
There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.
 Frans de Waal
I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.
 Leonard Nimoy
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
 James F. Cooper
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.
 Stacie Orrico
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
 John Ciardi
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
 Walter Pater
Leave your existence to existence, stop caring for yourself so much and let the universe care for you; it is the best mother.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.
I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.
 Damian Lewis
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
 Fats Domino
We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.
 Rachel Naomi Remen
Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.
 John Eliot
My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.
 Adyashanti
If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient.
 Gurbaksh Chahal
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.
We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.
 Dallin H. Oaks