reality-of-life

The best of you are those who are best to the women

A father gives his child nothing better than a good education

The best richness is the richness of the soul

Who are the learned? Those who practice what they know

It is difficult for a man laden with riches to climb the steep path, that leads to bliss

If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like

When two persons are together, two of them must not whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes a rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way

More is less, less is more

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

It's a matter of dishonour, and when it gets out, which it's bound to, this will be the one act you'll be remembered for. Everything else you achieved will be irrelevant. Your reputation will rest only on this, because ultimately reality is social, it's among others that we have to live and their judgements matter. - Pg. 198

Society has become so fake that the truth actually bothers people.

What?

In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog. I stood staring after them, absolutely stunned. The woman held in one hand a small cigarette-package-sized radio, its antenna quivering. From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear. There she was, oblivious to man and dog, listening to far winds and whispers and soap-opera cries, sleep-walking, helped up and down curbs by a husband who might just as well not have been there. This was not fiction.

The little kids by the water threw their hands in the air and squealed, chasing each other in circles.It was hard to believe that I__ ever been that small. That young. That happy and clueless. They hadpain ahead. Heartbreak. Loss. They didn__ know and I didn__ want them to _ but at the same time, Ihated that I hadn__ known. I__ taken everything for granted _ my mother, my friends in Alexandria,playing hockey. I dreamed about the future because that__ what people persuade you to do whenyou__e a kid, but that__ the biggest lie of all _ that you can plan. Reality is, you have no fucking cluewhat__ coming and neither do they

My greatest privilege is being married to a gentle loving husband. I am very grateful God made our path cross.

Acceptance" is a very important word in our lives. People drive themselves into madness and death thinking about the chasm that exists between their ideals and their actual reality that they are living. There must be a balance between improvement of one's self and one's circumstances and the acceptance of reality. There is a beautiful dance that one must learn, which involves embracing the reality of your life as you would embrace a Latin dance partner on the ballroom floor, and moving that partner (your reality) in graceful strides, towards where you want to be situated, on that dance floor. If you dance with no partner (your current reality), you will arrive at your destination empty. Empty. That is, if you ever arrive at all. But when you dance with that partner, embracing and accepting it for all of its flaws and its redeeming qualities, you will be able to move across that dance floor as a full, whole person. Wherever you end up stopping in that ballroom, you will stop there as a whole person, not an empty one. So, accept the mistakes that have been done unto you and the mistakes that you have done. Accept the fact that you didn't grow up perfectly and you are not perfect now. Accept, embrace, love the people who are given to you to love. And love yourself just as you are.