There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.
I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.
To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.
Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you
I know Mark,' I reply. 'And I don't like him.' 'But I do. And part of being social means being civil to someone you don't like.' 'That's stupid. It's a huge world. why not just get up and walk away?' 'Because that's rude,' Jess explains. 'I think it's rude to stick a smile on your face and pretend you like talking to someone when in reality you'd rather be sticking bamboo slivers under your fingernails.
In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.
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.
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.
Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.
If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.
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