#real_life

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#assert #contained #except #images #itself

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#defend #else #i #i think #idea

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#cuss #god #life #out #people

[...] when you look at the world, you put on the goggles of custom, habit and tribal wisdom lest the truth make you insane [...] you see the world reflected in your own image; you see yourself reflected to the image of the world (...) ↗

— David Zindell

#reminding #life

Acting to me is real life - I don't act. ↗

— Bai Ling

#acting #i #life #me #real

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it. ↗

— Colin Cotterill

#heroes #humor #personality #real-life #humor

You mustn't let men drive you to mangling the English language, no matter how sweet they are. ↗

— Marisa de los Santos

#real-life #funny

In what we call "real life"--if you want to be successful, if you want to get on in the longterm--you always have to come to some kind of compromise with your own emotions: I can't overreact NOW! I have to accept THIS! I have to ignore THAT!--You're forever having to tailor your emotions to the circumstances, you go easy on the people you love, you slip into your hundred little daily roles, you juggle, you balance, you weigh things up so as not to jeopardize the entire structure, because you yourself have a stake in it. ↗

— Daniel Glattauer

#real-life #life

If you truly live, you will never truly die! ↗

— Melanie M. Grace

#life #real-life #death

Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#real-life #inspirational