368 Quotes About Real-life

За три години при нас, в рилските усои, останаха трайно седмина послушници от мъжки пол. А имаше и девици, които искаха да се посветят на Христа, но аз ги отпращах към известните ми женски обители. Защото едно е да искаш, друго е да устоиш, а съвсем трето е да събереш огън и сено на едно място.

He knew better than to pray that the cloven would transform in a whirl of light into Esben Wingfeather, young and handsome and whole. Those things only happened in stories. So Janner pleaded simply for each beat of the beast's heart.

What you truly believe is what will guide your behavior. What you say is just window dressing.

Your beliefs will guide your behavior. Not your words. Talk is cheap.

We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

But by the time you’ve worked long enough, hard enough, Real Life (which insists on being capitalized as if it were a personage with a proper name and a right to barge into this rental unit called your life) begins to reveal itself as something other than effort, other than accomplishment. Real Life wishes to be left to its own purposeless devices.

And naturally, everything they tell about in books can happen in real life, but not in the same way. It is to this way of happeningthat I clung so tightly.

Una buena librería es, en realidad, un discreto agujero negro que sabe leer.

Real life is a pretty good experience.