Numerous real-life quotes to motivate, inspire and share

The real world reveals itself like surprise gifts on our doorstep, special moments that seem above and beyond the reality of others. These times are full, beautiful and meaningful beyond words, even when wrapped in pain.
Christopher Hawke

My world is about FEELings. Sometimes, these feelings run so deep i fear i will drown.Creatively, it's a dream to be so sensitive. In real life, it's exhausting, as i tread water to keep myself from sinking.
Jaeda DeWalt

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We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife
Bangambiki Habyarimana

There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it
Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Why do people complain when your crabby but the moment there crabby you tell them to stop moaning they moan so fuckin unreal
Emma mckenzie

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My heart is strong, I will not fail, I won't be wronged, I will prevail.
Alexandra Lanc

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I looked for any footmarks of course, but naturally, with all this rain, there wasn't a sign. Of course, if this were a detective story, there'd have been a convenient shower exactly an hour before the crime and a beautiful set of marks which could only have come there between two and three in the morning, but this being real life in a London November, you might as well expect footprints in Niagara. I searched the roofs right along—and came to the jolly conclusion that any person in any blessed flat in the blessed row might have done it.?
Dorothy L. Sayers

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A real definition of life lies in our daily thoughts and the steps we take to or away from what is distinctive and noble.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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Life is existence with meaning
Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life has no map; it's made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control.
Bangambiki Habyarimana

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...
Simona Panova

There is an absolute power that truly empowers without corrupting
Constance Friday

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We know how to dream beautifully! And in our dreams we are always extraordinarily active! We cross oceans, found colonies, introduce ideal governments and die as Kings or at least Presidents of Republics! In actual life, however, we groan, we are miserable and we greatly resent being obliged to bother about going to the Bank, in order to receive the interest of the capital acquired for us by our more energetic ancestors.
Aimée Dostoyevsky

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For an outpour of love there is always a first partaker
Sunday Adelaja

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A small event as tiny as a drop of a pin can change the direction of your entire life
Bangambiki Habyarimana

When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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The artistic life is a long and lovely suicide precisely because it involves the negation of self; as Highsmith imagined herself as her characters, so Ripley takes on the personae of others and in doing so metamorphoses himself into a 'living' work of art. A return to the 'real life' after a period of creativity resulted in a fall in spirits, an agony Highsmith felt acutely. She voiced this pain in the novel via Bernard's quotation of an excerpt from Derwatt's notebook: 'There is no depression for the artist except that caused by a return to the self'.
Andrew Wilson

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Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.
Colin Cotterill

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Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion
Bangambiki Habyarimana

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After I binged last night -or was it tonight - I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get me. It was more than just shadows and voices, more than just fantasies....it was real and I was scared to my core.My bones were shaking...m heart was pounding...I thought I was going to explode. I am glad I have you to talk to, to write this down. I tried to keep it all together, but then I gave in to the manes and became one with my insanity.
Nikki Sixx

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I am not singing for the future I am not dreaming of the past I am not talking of the fist time I never think about the last
Shane MacGowan

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the great mountain when seen from a distance shall always seem closer to us but to get to it and to climb to its apex to get the best view, we may need to take and experience the real walk with resilience and tenacity.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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It was Valentine's Day and I had spent the day in bed with my life partner, Ketel One. The two of us watched a romance movie marathon on TBS Superstation that made me wonder how people who write romantic comedies can sleep at night. At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf and then some Matthew McConaughey type either whips around the corner just in the nick of time to save her or is clumsily pulled down along with her. That event predictably leads to the magical moment of their first kiss. Please. I fall all-the-time. You know who comes and gets me? The bouncer. Then, within the two hour time frame of the movie, the couple meet, fall in love, fall out of love, break up and then just before the end of the movie, they happen to bump into each other by coincidence somewhere absolutely absurd, like by the river. This never happens in real life. The last time I bumped into an ex-boyfriend was at three o'clock in the morning at Rite Aid. I was ringing up Gas-X and corn removers.
Chelsea Handler

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[...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God exist? from whence springs decency? what sort of species is Homo Sapiens?) were either settled or not worth discusssing and serious writers should therefore confine themselves to their various ethnic heritages and interpersonal relationships.
James K. Morrow

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Reality and fantasy are not two separate spheres but one whole. They are like a world's atmosphere
Richelle E. Goodrich

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You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
Neil Gaiman

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If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.
Shannon L. Alder

We all have the best laid plans for our children and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)
Kristina Riggle

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We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.
Donna Goddard

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Then nothing became something and I was born and I wrought great havoc in the world in the time allotted to me and I returned to nothingness
Bangambiki Habyarimana

In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to make himself, so to speak, a case which would isolate him and protect him from external influences. Reality irritated him, frightened him, kept him in continual agitation and, perhaps to justify his timidity, his aversion for the actual, he always praised the past and what had never existed; and even the classical languages which he taught were in reality for him goloshes and umbrellas in which he sheltered himself from real life.
Anton Chekhov

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Story telling or teachable moments, provides us with a vast reference base of real life antidotes for possible future problems. They not only entertain and give us a resource of proven solutions, but they also help shape and mold our character. Therefore, when we don’t take our time to communicate with our kids, then we rob them of critical life lessons that we and our forefathers learn the hard way - lessons that they would needlessly have to learn through trial and error themselves.
Drexel Deal

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Do you know why we show respect to life when it shows none to us? Family is the answer
Bangambiki Habyarimana

However, at fourteen years old, she didn’t understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life hurt.That the words were just words on a page, but in real life, the pain was immense. Trials and tribulations to prove your love were exactly that, trials and tribulations.
Kristen Ashley

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We deal with so many nightmares on a regular basis. When I’m watching a horror movie, there’s a pattern, a sense of control in them. I’m just an observer, not having to deal with any of the repercussions. It’s a nice dream to think monsters play by the rules, that they’ve got a pattern you can unlock and follow. Real life’s messy and the chaos leaves you devastated in the wake.
Katherine McIntyre

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Some people start to live when they die
Bangambiki Habyarimana

Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.
Edward de Bono

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Life's a book filled on pages Just awaiting to be written.Some don't open it for ages,Maybe afraid of being bitten.
Ana Claudia Antunes

Family is the only why of life
Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you truly live, you will never truly die!
Melanie M. Grace

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By their actions, they will show you who they are.
Leah Remini

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Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person.
Israelmore Ayivor

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FORKED BRANCHESWe grew up on the same street,You and me.We went to the same schools,Rode the same bus,Had the same friends,And even shared spaghettiWith each other's families.And though our roots belong toThe same tree,Our branches have grownIn different directions.Our tree,Now resembles a thousandOther treesIn a sea of a trillionOther treesWith parallel destiniesAnd similar dreams.You cannot envy the branchThat grows biggerFrom the same seed,And you cannotBlame it on the sun's direction.But you still compare us,As if we're still those twoKids at the parkSlurping down slushies andEating ice cream. Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)
Suzy Kassem

Life is like water in a glass. Drop by drop the glass empties.
Bangambiki Habyarimana

Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life
Bangambiki Habyarimana