The key that unlocks energy is desire. It’s also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.
That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.
Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.
If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’ that ‘I’ cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.
The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.
Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves.
The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.
Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It’s real easy to fall.
When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn’t.
Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.
For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.
Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.
Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.