#real

All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God. ↗

— John Piper

#life

Detik itu juga aku merasa seolah-olah jantungku diremas. Ah. Inilah sebabnya mengapa aku menyukai film dokumenter.Film dokumenter membuat aku sadar bahawa hidup ini nyata, bahwa dunia yang kutinggali ini tidak sempurna. ↗

— Windry Ramadhina

#film #life #reality #life

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances. ↗

— W.S. Gilbert

#injustice #justice #life #reality #theater

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble. So you just walk home. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #reality #truth #life

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone. ↗

— Ike Turner

#change #different #different names #going #gone

It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be. ↗

— Knight of the woeful countenance

#dox-quiote #madness #man-of-la-mancha #perception #reality

Do you often wonder,” she continued, desperately hoping her questions would win Vasily over, “what might have been had his gaze fallen upon some other miserable wretch? Yes, you would have been destitute, starving in the streets, scraping for your next meal…but even beggars are free. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#ilyse-charpentier #realization #what-if #freedom

Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#life

When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the life you're given. ↗

— Kayt C. Peck

#magical-realism #life

I could enjoy the simple life with a small living quarters, a scratched album of Johnny Cash and a Box of Twinkies ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life #reality #twinkies #life