#real

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#eating-disorder #perfectionism #thinness #unrealistic #love

They didn't train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#body #clue #contact #five #get

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star. ↗

— Anna Faris

#i #movie #movie star #never #really

Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned. ↗

— Stacy Verdick Case

#inspirational #motivational #opinions #self-realization #inspirational

But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was an effect of the distance between them becoming less and less tolerable with each passing day, since as we grow old - for every now and then one must, yes, look reality in the eye and call things by their proper names - we feel more keenly the need to have the person we love beside us. ↗

— Andrea Camilleri

#love #reality-check #love

I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality. ↗

— Sarah Mally

#christian-living #girls #marriage #parental-guidance #purity

With Me, I want the Bank of America to know that I'm fucking alive. ↗

— Jason Myers

#real #inspirational

And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: "It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#childhood-memories #inspirational-life #inspirational-persona #inspirational-quotes #letting-go-of-childhood

Salmon swim against my stream of consciousness. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#salmon #surreal #change

Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it ↗

— Henry James

#perspective #reality #change