Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. — Albert Einstein

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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water – Rabindranath Tagore

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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

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You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Don’t give up now! You’ve come too far to take orders from a bunch of molecules in your brain that can’t even tell the difference between reality and a dream.

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I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.

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It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

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