#real

A brick could replace the eagle as the symbol for the United States of America. And why not? A brick just sort of sits there, expecting everything to be built around it; a brick crumbles, much like an empire; and a brick is nonthinking, just like America’s “leadership” in Washington DC—on both sides of the political spectrum.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is. ↗

— Red Haircrow

#life-lessons #reality #life

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#life #reality #life

Sometimes when you're upset it's so easy to forget what's real and go for what makes you feel better. (131) ↗

— Charise Mericle Harper

#reality #life

I think I've been afraid most of my life to be myself. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#life

Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#learning #realisation #truth #life

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#reality #self-discovery #solitude #life

The world is three days: As for yesterday it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it. ↗

— Hasan Al-Basri

#life #reality #world #life

We're running out of time, he said. As if time were the kind of thing you could run out of, as if it were measured into bowls that were handed to us at birth and if we ate too much or too fast or right before jumping into the water then our time would be lost, wasted, already spent. But time is beyond our finite comprehension. It's endless, it exists outside of us; we cannot run out of it or lose track of it or find a way to hold on to it. Time goes on even when we do not. We have plenty of time, is what Castle should have said. We have all the time in the world, is what he should have said to me. But he didn't because what he meant tick tock is that our time tick tock is shifting. It's hurtling forward heading in an entirely new direction slamming face-first into something else and tick tick tick tick tick it's almost time for war ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#juliette-chronicles #juliette-ferrars #life #reality #tahereh-mafi

Don't believe everything you read or hear, remember a large part of our world is made up of fiction!! ↗

— Victoria Addino

#lesson-for-life #reality-of-life #truthful-in-every-way #life