“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly an…”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“And you’ll sit beside me, and we’ll look, not at visions, but at realities.”— Edith Wharton,, amazon.com
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives; but none about his or her own.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“It wasn’t real. I deluded myself. I had this aching need to be loved and it was screwing with my head. Sometimes, when you crave certain feelings, you’ll trick yourself into thinking the other person is something other than what he appears.”— Ilona Andrews, amazon.com
“Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.”— Alexandra Bracken, amazon.com
“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”— Frank Herbert, amazon.com
“I need very badly to be just me. I can’t live up to your romantic ideal of me.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com