Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn’t have to pay anything if he didn’t make it.
Danger is very real but fear is a choice.
Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that ‘pursuit’ of happiness because the ‘pursuit’ puts it back on you.
In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome.
Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile.
Real optimism is exposed to the worst but expects the best.
Real and lasting generosity requires that a person do more than make up his mind to give. He must also make up his heart.
It’s not the increasing competition; it’s going back to real work that most of us complain about.
There is a voice inside which speaks and says, “This is the real me!”
If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.
Real servants don’t try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer – and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature’s particulars.
It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.
Life feels like a real fight – as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.
We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.