If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually frame our lives. But the master metaphor of our era does not come from agriculture - it comes from manufacturing. We do not believe that we 'grow' our lives - we believe that we 'make' them. Just listen to how we use the word in everyday speech: we make time, make friends, make meaning, make money, make a living, make love.
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Putting heart & soul & contributing to what you are good at... is only for that movement. All is forgotten & people sitting far a distance knowingly wouldn't accept the same. Ultimately we make no difference & ground zero reality is never taken into account.
Harsh reality is always better than false hope.
The world and humanity were created by God and are therefore divinely inspired and intrinsically holy.
We kept our secrets because we don't want to reveal what we were before
In our dreams every man and woman are amazingly perfect, but in reality they have imperfections, so accept it without judgement.
That__ the thing with reality, he said, you can__ repeat it to order, you can__ correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.
1715Whatever, however anybody leaves you alone and you think its your fault, its wrong, you are not alone because.... God is always with you, its not your fault the person who gone is just not perfect for you..!
Keep your head up and your hopes high, friend; anything is possible.
The western average human lifespan is 2.5 billion seconds (or 77 years). Here are 2 time-dilating perception strategies to enhance one's allocated living time: 1.Make choices. 2.Focus on your best qualities.
If you have to push yourself to do it, should you be doing it in the first place? That was a question I never dared to asked myself.
I heard this when I was in the Air Force: __here__ never enough time to do the job right, but always enough time to do it over.
Tell me something wonderful," he said to Dane. "Tell me that we are going to die dreamfully and loved in our sleep.""You're always writing one of your plays on the phone," said Dane."I said, something wonderful. Say something about springtime.""It is sloppy and wet. It is a beast from the sea.""Ah," said Harry.
Reality is how you look at it
But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.
When someone dismissively answers __f course a tree makes a sound if no one__ nearby,_ they are merely demonstrating their inability to ponder an event nobody attended. They__e finding it too difficult to take themselves out of the equation. They somehow continue to imagine themselves present when they are absent.
Look at yourself, you__e old, too, but still doing your work. This is what we are, Philips. This is what we are.
Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story.