I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.
When I visit again some haunt of my youth, I am glad to find that nature wears so well. The landscape is indeed something real, and solid, and sincere, and I have not put my foot through it yet.
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.
When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
A man’s real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.
There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world’s ills will be cured.
I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more – as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.
The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated.
All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Prayer covers the whole of man’s life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.
When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
I have always been a great dreamer. In dreams I have always been more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of my health and energy.
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.