Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 217
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Andy Rooney
My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.
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Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.
Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.
Rene Char
When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization.
Love is the ultimate revelation, the final sanctuary.
Toyohiko Kagawa
One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us.
There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn't cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.
Sanity is not statistical.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.
The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.
James Buchanan
We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.
...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Joseph Wood Krutch
This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.
Johann Arndt
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I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.