#reality

You took life by the horns and tried to hold on tight, for fear of being ripped to shreds, left bloodied and battered. ↗

— Holly Hood

#life #reality #inspirational

The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life #peace #reality #truth #life

We keep hoping in God while reality keeps knocking at our door. ↗

— Shina Charles Memud

#god #life #reality #religion #life

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book? ↗

— Julian Barnes

#life #protagonist #reality #life

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion? ↗

— Rumi

#harmony #oneness #reality-of-life #spiritual #unity

We half to make our lives meaningful in spite of what we don't know. ↗

— Anne Rice

#meaningful #reality #truth #life

If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#reality #sacrifice #selflessness #well-being #love

A wife is meant to be cherished and to be treated with a gentle hand, while a mistress is a convenient cunt to rut in. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#love #male-thinking #marriage #reality #love

People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They’re interested in being looked after. They’re interested in a tale being spun... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#false-hope #reality #sense-of-security #truth #men

Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#language #reality #silence #men