Byron Katie Quotes

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.

That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.

gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.

Tis best to build no castles in the air.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Impossible desires are the height of unreason.

People are disappointed that you aren't exactly who they thought you were, as opposed to somebody who's just walking around trying to get some laundry done.

It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.