Real Quotes - Page 57

I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.

God is life; and in that life which is God there are no years. ... The human sense of life is not your real life.

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

All that you are attached to, all that you love, all that you know, someday will be gone. Knowing this, and that the world is your mind which you create, play in, and suffer from, is known as discrimination. Discriminate between the Real and the Unreal, the known is unreal and will come and go so stay with the Unknown, the Unchanging, the Truth.

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.

I am not superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I am juggling a lot of balls in the air? And sometimes some of the balls get dropped.

In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects

I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

We will work as a group, we need to be a real team, that is the only way to go far

I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them.