Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.

Should she stick with the nice, sensitive guy who treats her well (Ben Stiller), or should she roll the dice with the frustrating boho bozo who treats her like crap (Ethan Hawk)? Winona made the kind of romantic decision most people my age would have made in 1994: She pursued a path that was difficult and depressing, and she did so because it showed the slightest potential for transcendence.

Truth is nothing but a formulated perception of experienced reality.

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.