#reality

Love must face reality If it is to survive ↗

— Loretta Livingstone

#love #reality #reality-of-life #life

Some people walk through a hallway with covered mirrors– the hallway is lined with mirrors but there are blankets covering each of them. They go through life believing in an image of themselves that isn't real, and an image of themselves standing in the world and relative to the world, that isn't real. If you happen to be in that hallway and pull the blankets off the mirrors, they're going to think that you're hurting them; but they're actually just seeing their reflection for the first time. Sometimes the most horrendous thing a person can see, is all the hidden things inside them, the things they've covered, the things they choose not look at. And you're not hurting them, you're setting them free. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#freedom #inspirational-life #inspirational-living #reality-check #self-acceptance

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

Don't set the alarm clock if you're not ready to wake up. i.e. Never make somebody fall for you if later on you'll just ignore them. ↗

— Hannah Mae Bencio

#love #lovers #lovers-quarrels #reality-check #relationships

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

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ↗

— Les Brown

#does #opinion #other #people #reality

Can't look at the damage that's been done, it's not healthy. Have to look ahead of it. Can't change what I've done, only what I'm gonna do. ↗

— Jordan Ghere

#hope #inspirational #life #living #pain

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

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

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#reality #inspirational