Quotes About Reality

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

I'm just a normal person like you growing up, living my life, trying to figure out what life really is.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Be thankful for nights that turned into mornings, friends that turned into family, and past dreams and goals that turned into realities. And use this mindset of positivity to fuel an even brighter today and tomorrow.

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

He'd always seemed ageless. Until Maizy's recklessness had nearly killed a man.

Look at the real reality beneath the sham realities of things and gadgets," Leonard always tells me. "Look through the eye in your heart. That's the meaning of Indian religion.

Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations, and occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no existence without the rites of friendship. Social rituals create a reality which would be nothing without them. It is not too much to say that ritual is more to society than words are to thought. For it is very possible to know something and then find words for it. But it is impossible to have social relations without symbolic acts.

Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish.

When I became a Christian as a teenager, I gathered a false belief to myself that my Christian friends would be my forever friends. Surely, since we both loved Jesus and followed Him, we would always be in each other's lives. No one would hurt the other -- because Jesus! It didn't take long for that theory of mine to be tested by reality.

Maybe some lies, maybe most of them, were lies we only told ourselves.

I used to be someone. Someone named Jenna Fox. That's what they tell me. But I am more than a name. More than they tell me. More than the facts and statistics they fill me with. More than the video clips they make me watch. More . But I'm not sure what.

It wasn't good to dwell on maybes. Maybes could be twisted into things that never really existed

He was a man, not a monster, as you imagine. He died the way all men die, one breath at a time.

It wears on a person, you know, always having to be perfect. You know that one day something will happen,some problem that won't fit into a neat little project. Something that can't be fixed. Then where does that leave you?" She doesn't hesitate. "You become mortal like the rest of us," she says.

I hated things being for the best. They never really were. It was a phrase that sugarcoated the leftover crumbs of our options.

Los quizás podían retorcer cosas que en realidad nunca existieron

The best of it, thats what we told ourselves, over and over again as one day rolled into the next; we were only making the bets of it. It was a story, a riddle, a wish stalk that we wove into every kiss, a sweet powdered sugar that would melt and disappear on the end of our tongues, but for now it was real enough.

Brightmist. It's one of the poorest quarters. Don't let the name fool you. Nothing bright about it. Garvin was wrong. There was at least one bright thing about it. -Jase