#reality

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#happiness #inspirational #quotient #reality #inspirational

For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending. ↗

— Alecia Stone

#philosophy #reality #inspirational

success is easy with just a prayer, encouragement and patience! ↗

— Sonia Dea Octalia

#reality #inspirational

I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No matter how we tried, once we started swimming, we always let go. But after we bobbed to the surface, we'd climb out of the pool, clamber up the high-dive ladder, clasp hands, and do it again. We're swimming separately now. I get that. Maybe it's just what you have to do to keep above water. But who knows? Maybe one day, we'll climb out, grab hands, and jumo again. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#growing-up #hopeful #reality-of-life #friendship

Jokes are hilarious only when you take them unreal and dreamlike, otherwise it becomes painful. So I always live otherworldly... ↗

— Saket Assertive

#reality #truth-inspirational #inspirational

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#inspirational #joy #memories #memory #pain

nothing in this world was more difficult than love. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love #reality #relationships #life

The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#reality #thoughts #life

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. ↗

— Red Haircrow

#creative-thinking #creative-writing #creativity #individuality #life

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#romance #life