Quotes About Reality

Appearances are deceiving.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you're just a regular person. A regular embarrassing old mom.

No mom has it all together. We're all dealing with loose ends when it comes to motherhood and our children. Some of us are just better at keeping up appearances, that's all.

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

My mom used to say, "You cannot experience what you cannot imagine ... yet you always experience what you do imagine.

I just go about my life. I'm a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I'm definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I'm a celebrity-adjacent.

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.

Every single moment of reality instantly turns into memories; reality can not be caught; we can only catch memories.

We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.

If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.

I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that.

People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high.

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

Music-making as a means of getting money is hell