Real Quotes - Page 54

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.

People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

I got ex's all across the country and I owe everybody in town. I got bill collectors a callin' me up, and lawyers trying to track me down.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

It's easy to pretend 'to be fierce and fearless because living your truth takes real courage. Real fearless and fierce women admit mistakes and they work to correct them. We stand up and we use our voices for things other than self promotion. We don't stand by and let racism and sexism and homophobia run rapid on our watch. Real fearless and fierce women complement other women and we recognize and embrace that their shine in no way diminishes our light and that it actually makes our light shine brighter.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.

A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.

Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality. When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.

If you want to know what's Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.

It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and elemental life that makes up the earth's living body; it would offer real protection, encourage free expression, and reestablish an ecological balance to be biologically and economically sustainable. Its underlying metaphor would be mystery, the sense of wonder at all that is beyond us and around us, at the forces that sustain our lives and the intricate complexity and beauty of their dance.