Quotes & Sayings About Needing A Break From Reality

Unveiling the lies that we live by can ultimately help reveal the truth. — Miranda J. Barrett

The important things. Where should I find them? In the detail, like God? In the risk, like the Devil? — Jeanette Winterson

Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us. Echoes. Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed them about in their carriages. Dutifully, wearily now they push us about in our chairs. — Marlena De Blasi

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. — Nana Mouskouri

After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of hip-hop, sold as a commodity and package with sensational race, sex and violent imagery, and the hip-hop culture that kids are living everyday at a local level, which often doesn't dabble in that terrain. — Bakari Kitwana

Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment. The best metrics of child poverty aren't monetary, but rather how often a child is read to or hugged. — Nicholas Kristof

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best. — Ben Carson

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision. — Matthea Harvey

So, without telling any of my Zen-snob buddies, I liked to pretend everything was the Pure Land, that my life was already perfect as it was. — Jaimal Yogis

Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music. — Michael Ruhlman

We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues. — Dalia Mogahed

There is no greater disease than the loss of hope. — Yisroel Salanter

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. — Gloria Steinem

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem. — Tim Cook