Quotes About Realities

Sometimes being a grown-up sucked.

En los cuentos se hace lo que se quiere y en la vida real se hace lo que se puede.

This industry kind of forces you to grow up very quickly.

Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

To be sure, many of the Sykes-Picot borders reflected deals cut in Europe rather than local demographic or historical realities. But that hardly makes the Middle East unique: Most borders around the world owe their legacy less to thoughtful design or popular choice than to some mixture of violence, ambition, geography, and chance.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

All observations of life are harsh, because life is.

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.

Anyone familiar with the love affairs between men and women could have told them that theirs would soon be over.

Real slum kids with runny noses.

My brothers and I were not encouraged to search for God, the obvious source of solace, but we three kids were led to the world of books, which to us was just as good. We found in books the divine plop, the joy of settling down deeply into something, worlds and realities greater than our own troubled minds.

French Braid reveals the gentle realities of family ties that constrict and those that fall apart altogether, while the daily hum of diligence and possibility reverberates in the background.

she had discovered that ageing and what they called maturity were myths, that all the years did was disqualify you from various pleasures, one by one.

I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.

For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.

His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life.

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

hope, however, that the data contained here is of sufficient power and solidity to enable those who are open to expanding their view of possible realities to consider that the world might contain forces and intelligences of which we have hardly allowed ourselves to dream.

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.

The fancy that sensations are symbols and not realities hovered in his mind, and led him to speculate as to whether they could not actually be transmuted one into another.

Both in Cuba and in the United states, the word 'freedom' comes up frequently in describing Cuba's history and current realities. It's a word that incorporates many different meanings. US policy makers tend to use it to refer to freedom for private enterprise, while for Cuban policy makers it generally means freedom from U.S interference.

Real people live with, you know, being Christians with cancer, Christians with AIDS, and Christians coming back home with limbs missing from war, and Christians being evicted, and Christians losing their homes. And if you don't paint that picture, too, then I think that you are misrepresenting what the faith really can look like.

My wife deals with real problems. My problems aren't problems - they're inconveniences.