Reality Check Quotes

Carpe DiemBy Edna StewartShakespeare, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman did it, why can't I?The words of Horace, his laconic phrase. Does it amuse me or frighten me?Does it rub salt in an old wound? Horace, Shakespeare, Robert Frost and Walt Whitman my loves,we've all had a taste of the devils carpe of forbidden food. My belly is full of mourning over life mishaps of should have's, missed pleasure, and why was I ever born?The leaf falls from the trees from which it was born in and cascade down like a feather that tumbles and toil in the wind.One gush! It blows away. It’s trampled, raked, burned and finally turns to ashes which fades away like the leaves of grass.Did Horace get it right? Trust in nothing?The shortness of Life is seventy years, Robert Frost and Whitman bared more, but Shakespeare did not.Butterflies of Curiosities allures me more.Man is mortal, the fruit is ripe. Seize more my darling! Enjoy the day.

~ Edna Stewart

They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms length rather than falling into the arms of infidelity.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The metaphysical truth and the end reality is simply this - you are All. Infinite Oneness. Consciousness is but only a part of it. So, you're consciousness, and yet more. You're the Whole. Thus is 'That'. Get it.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Do you know how many people would give anything for what you have? Not the fame or wealth—the opportunity to wake up tomorrow healthy, pain free and with a future stretching out before them?

~ Sarah Grimm

When you’re gone and people remember you, what will they say about you? That you were happy, generous and kind? That you loved big? Or that you were the drunken singer in a rock band?

~ Sarah Grimm

I plan to live my own way. Hopefully, it is as per God's Way.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

One of the biggest challenge in life is to see things for what they are instead of what you want them to be.

~ Saahil Prem

If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs and able to weather the thunder. Not a baby that still needs to be defended.

~ Martyn V. Halm

The god of fools is a fool just like them.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are!

~ C. Joybell C.

Testing the wrong person can prove a massive failure for the antagonist.

~ Carlos Wallace

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

~ Franz Werfel

When I was in the Navy, everyone fell under the purview of “navy gray”. It is the military’s way of reminding its enlisted personnel that they are all equal. Man or woman, black or white, young or old, everyone was navy gray. With God's grace I can proudly say a better understanding of this concept has helped me ameliorate disputes, mend fences that appeared hopeless and find light in the midst of darkness.

~ Carlos Wallace

We live in a world with an ever-growing population. Personal space these days is at a premium. Physically, we are practically tripping over our fellow man. Mentally and spiritually, the divide among us seems to widen.

~ Carlos Wallace

Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving.... AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intravenous drug use. It is simply an opportunistic virus that does what it has to do to stay alive.

~ Chris Crutcher

I do not want to sound cynical or condescending, but your lips are moving, your mind unbending.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

~ Thomas Browne

She had assumed they would see each other every day but she hadn’t really thought about the implications of having an affair with a married man. It wasn’t going to be a normal relationship.

~ Kassandra Cross

Not God, but man-made gods kill, by self-will.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

No book dropped from up there. If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Uncertainty is a temptress. We may try our best to avoid her. But what is certain is that at some point of time, she will find us. The only question that remains is whether like Medusa, she will paralyze you, or whether like one of the nine muses of ancient Greece, she will drive you to greater things.

~ Richie Singh

Humans are mostly kind only to their own-self, and their own. To another being, they're mostly indifferent, if not inhumane.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING.After all Love is a Vern, it must be demonstrated genuinely.

~ Robert Junior

It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING.After all Love is a Verb, it must be demonstrated genuinely.

~ Robert Junior

It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.

~ Alice Walsh

Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.

~ Vann Chow

The 'Good News' is, the messiah cometh. The bad news is, he never does.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Life is too short to bullshit.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Your time is your life.

~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they ight believe you.

~ André Maurois

LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he were fighting with himself than with Hickey) I'm afraid to live, am I?--and even more afraid to die! So I sit here, with my pride drowned on the bottom of a bottle, keeping drunk so I won't see myself shaking in my britches with fright, or hear myself whining and praying: Beloved Christ, let me live a little longer at any price! If it's only for a few days more, or a few hours even, have mercy, Almighty God, and let me still clutch greedily to my yellow heart this sweet treasure, this jewel beyond price, the dirty, stinking bit of withered old flesh which is my beautiful little life! (He laughs with a sneering, vindictive self-loathing, staring inward at himself with contempt and hatred. Then abruptly he makes Hickey again the antagonist.) You think you'll make me admit that to myself?

~ Eugene O'neill

Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least, nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.

~ William Shakespeare

Living is a constant process of debunking our romantic notions of how our personal life will unfold. Reality oftentimes fails to meet a person’s glamorous expectations.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be.

~ Dianna Hardy

Misfortunes never come singly.

~ Anne Frank

But like all moments trapped in time, that moment would end and Joey Boldt, as all the greats before him did, would begin to understand that clinging too tightly to anything results in Time and Fate shaking you until you can't hold on any longer. And then, when you are knocked for a six and lose your grip, they allow you to spiral into a freefall where men are broken and legends are made.

~ Melodie Ramone

So, your god is the only god? Okay, but then, so is my dog.

~ Fakeer Ishavardas

Don't be about just any life. Be about the life you want to be about.

~ Elias Williams