#real

After reaching your highest peak, descending the mountain may indeed seem to be the easy path. However, do not lose yourself, for the decline may tarnish or lessen both the memory and reality of that which you have already striven to achieve. ↗

— R.Dalton

#decline #greatness #real-life #life

Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of music, close- ups of the actors' faces, the camera slowly pulling away to let all this sink in for the viewer...but, in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper. ↗

— Silas House

#realizations #life

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#reality #life

there is no understanding between me and this world they don't understand me and i don't care them. ↗

— Adnan Khan

#life-and-living #life-experience #life-lessons #reality #understanding

The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#decisive #face #issues #japan #need

All those days had been removed, simply and precisely, whole weeks brimming with cloudless blue skies neatly severed and discarded. We needed Beth's name shouted not whispered. ↗

— Karen Foxlee

#dreams

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#grew #how #into #just #kind

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree. ↗

— Susan Olsen

#adult #any #barking #being #had

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you. ↗

— David Ortiz

#books #career #end #get #going

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich. ↗

— Adam Osborne

#free #free lunch #get #go #good