Real Quotes - Page 104

It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.

You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.

A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes.

You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one's life. So you lose it, you go to your hero's heaven and everything is milk and honey 'til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That's not courage. Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one's clichés.

I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for.

I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's only 'cause they eat a sandwich and make an omelet in act two. But it's a romantic fairy tale, and I'm very aware of that. I don't think it helps the actors in my plays to lose themselves in the reality of talking to another person. A good McNally actor always knows he's in a play with an audience.

The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess?

God is waiting for the response of our freedom. Our own choice, our own creativity, is essential to the drama, and this makes the world a drama fraught with real peril.

On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means.

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.

You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.

Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.

Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

The air to a glider pilot is a reality. . . . He is trying to understand it in all its moods; to learn its flow, its laws, and to try and use this knowledge to his own ends.

I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer me.

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.