Quotes About Reality

There is nothing to be gained by trying to change reality. I know this. Completely. And yet. And. Yet.

But when you hear the same stories over and over again, from people from all over the world, you start realizing that transgender is not an anomaly. It's a part of the spectrum of people's realities. Then you stop wondering about the cause and you start realizing it's a part of reality.

EFT can be thought of as a postmodern therapy in that EFT therapists help clients deconstruct problems and responses by bringing marginalized aspects of reality into focus, probing for the not-yet spoken, and integrating elements of a couple's reality that have gone un-storied.

Welcome to the real world Kerri. Shit happens. You don't get to stop it by being a nun or telling the truth or turning counter clockwise three times while facing the sun and clucking like a chicken. It's a crapshoot and sometimes you lose.

Receptionists [for the Betty Crocker Kitchen tours] had tissues and sympathy for guests grappling with the cold reality that it was impossible to meet Betty Crocker.

All those Disney films have you believe that one day you'll meet your Prince Charming. What they don't tell you is he comes in a psychotic package without warning labels. He

She had spent the last six months of her senior year counting down the days, literally wrote the number on a jotter next to her bed every morning. She thought once she'd escaped that prison, her life would suddenly become fantastic, but it hadn't turned out that way.

All those Disney films have you believe that one day you'll meet your Prince Charming. What they don't tell you is he comes in a psychotic package without warning labels.

Time has a way of fixing memories so they have their own truth, even if years later they deceive you.

Most of us don't have nightmares that come to life and try to kill us.

Anne couldn't construct a world without pain. But she could trust a big, capable God who would be there, holding her when trouble invaded her world. God's grace was sufficient to hold her in any circumstance. And in this—this reality, this character of God—dwelled the joy of her faith. Joy wasn't a reaction to God's blessings. It was a state of being because of salvation through Jesus Christ.

You have to embrace the life you have, not the one you expected you'd have - or the one others expect you to have.

The only thing that separated the so-called real world from high school was a locker combination

You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened...

Life is real, in all its complexity. And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.

Sometimes what you want is given to you in a way that is so very different from how you had pictured getting it

Which was worse? Mourning the loss of something without knowing you never actually had it, or mourning the loss of what you thought you had and never had at all?

Death doesn't ever look at shoulda, though, does it? Death looks at nothing. It just does what it's meant to do.

Fear is not only a leaden foe, but a liar as well. It was not as bad as I thought it would be, sitting there in a London department store on an ordinary Saturday.

what we see is not always what is. And what is, we often cannot see until we train our eyes to see it.

I believe I have you to thank for reminding me that pictures on an urn, though lovely, are not real. Life is real, in all its complexity. And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.

found out how fast things can change. You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find out pretty quick you were looking at the wrong road.

what you can still dream about is often sweeter than the reality.

sublimely human, isn't it? Not unsullied genetic