5,320 Quotes About Real

The ideal is the enemy of the real.

You need to have a WhyHaving a “Why” whatever it is, becomes food. It makes your dreams become more urgent.

The look on his face made me want to die. It confirmed every mean and low thing I'd ever thought about myself, the stuff you hope and pray no one will ever know about you. Because if they knew, they would see the real you, and they would despise you.

One Sure Way To Know The REAL TRUTH, Is To Never Have Assumptions

Everyone tells us to be one in a million... What they don't tell us is that being one in a million also means being one against a million.

I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now.

The church represents the people of God who are the real power of any nation

He's basically a good man. But he doesn't know me. Any more than he knew that girl that looked after your mother. He can't know me, not the way I know him. Maybe some of these Hawaiians can, or the Indians on the reservation. They've seen their fathers humiliated. Their mothers desecrated. But your grandfather will never know what that feels like.

How to recognize what is real? To know the layers and depths of oneself, to know how to open, to know how to fill a capacious hold-all, to know one’s own quirks and nervous twitches, cravings and transparencies, and, above all the force, literally the force, of events, connections, the wild calm in every thing.