“At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Life isn’t meant to exist in a narrow color spectrum of perpetual happiness. That’s a movie. It’s not reality. Experience all your vivid, fiery, watery emotions. Give yourself permission to be full bodied. You’re peeling. Revealing. It’s a messy, magnificent process.”— Kris Carr, kriscarr.com
“Mother didn’t understand that children aren’t frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.”— Kate Morton, amazon.com
“Abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.”— Piet Mondrian, amazon.com
“I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”— Frank Herbert, 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 went away in my head…That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, goodreads.com
“Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.”— Cathy Guisewite, books.google.com.ph
“Real isn’t how you are made. It’s a thing that happens to you. When someone loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become real.”— Margery Williams, amazon.com
“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“It’s difficult…ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”— Anne Frank, amazon.com
“What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”— George Lucas, Qui-Gon Jinn, Liam Neeson, amazon.com