It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return...
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.
Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego’s rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.
Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.
Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in.
Real patriots ask questions.
I’m really not that funny in real life. But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.
It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you’re frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.
And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him home, and see if you cannot discover the reason of his enmity to the Word of the Lord. It lies in some sort of sin.
Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of and his conversion is a fiction.
We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.
It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God’s glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head and humble prayer, yet it silently adores.
May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest.
You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.
Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.
Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”.