"It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy."

-- John Ortberg

#Pain Quotes #Reality Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.241, U of Nebraska Press
“Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.”
“In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out.”
“Apparently, I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his money than what Barack Obama does with mine.”
“I'm a modern girl, but you should put your husband first. I like to think divorce is not an option.”
“Journalism is just a gun. Itâ€™s only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, thatâ€™s all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.”
“Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?”
“There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.”

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