You know it’s real when you are who you think you are.
You don’t make stupid internet videos or show people you have too much free time, you just say the right things and they’ll be like, Damn this dude’s a real person and I can relate to that. That can make somebody’s life, that can make somebody’s day, that can be a line that they never forget.
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.
We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America’s real message to the rest of the world.
Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things – call them what you will – I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess.
There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.
Real true faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength.
What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don’t let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us. God hates sham.
He doesn’t want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn’t love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.
Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.
Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world’s enemy, and she must stifle it.
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.