Quotes about Reality

The best cultures derive from actions people actually take, not the ones they write about in a mission statement.

If you want revival, get right with God. If you are not prepared to bring the last piece, for God's sake stop talking about revival, your talking and praying is but the laughing-stock of devils. It is about time we got into the grips of reality. Are we thirsty?

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement.

Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is truth?

He felt himself flung back on all the ugly uncertainties from which he thought he had cast loose forever. After all, what did he know of her life? Only as much as she had chosen to show him, and measured by the world's estimate, how little that was!

What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe.

It's more real to me here than if I went up, he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other.

Control and certainty are myths.

But the point is that we live in a culture that idolizes happiness, and if we idolize happiness, it will always elude us.

What happens when people are raised on a steady diet of "You are great, you can do anything, you deserve it, you are the best, you can get what you want"? Sooner or later they find that they are not great, they can't do everything, they are not the best, and they can't control it all. Depression and denial are the only two options left.