Real Quotes
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401. “To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.”

— Winston Churchill

402. “It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It’s real. And I meant it.”

— John Lennon

403. “The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived – not always looked forward to as though the “real” living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

404. “Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.”

— George Orwell

405. “If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.”

— Byron Katie

406. “Harry Potter’s like Santa Clause: something you can’t see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it.”

— Emma Watson

407. “The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Also featured in: Quotes About Laughter

408. “The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

409. “Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.”

— Jim Rohn

410. “It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.”

— Douglas Adams

411. “What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.”

— Terence McKenna

412. “All the well-meaning advice in the world won’t amount to a hill of beans if we’re not even addressing the real problem.”

— Stephen R. Covey

413. “The prayer preceding all prayers is ‘May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.’”

— C. S. Lewis

414. “A joy shared is a joy doubled.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

415. “Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.”

— Ron Paul

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416. “The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.”

— Milton Friedman

417. “Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”

— Pema Chödrön

418. “The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.”

— Frank Zappa

419. “The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

420. “Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”

— Milton Friedman

421. “Ive never understood having crushes on people who you dont know in real life. I only crush on people I meet. I mean, I can appreciate that someone is good-looking, obviously, but I dont intend to fantasize about people I dont know!”

— Emma Watson

422. “The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out.”

— Alan Cohen

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423. “Nurture your own confidence and make it real; don’t pretend to be someone you’re not.”

— Tom Hiddleston

424. “In ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’ I was visualizing Alice in Wonderland, an image of this female who would come and save me – a girl with kaleidoscope eyes who would be the real love of my life. Lucy turned out to be Yoko.”

— John Lennon

425. “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”

— Albert Einstein

426. “The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else’s dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.”

— Oprah Winfrey

427. “That’s what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act.”

— Jim Morrison

428. “As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

429. “Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

430. “If you’re a black Christian, you have a real short memory.”

— Chris Rock

431. “In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

432. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as heck we should never teach.”

— Maya Angelou

433. “Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.”

— Smith Wigglesworth

434. “In real existence there is only unity.”

— Rumi

435. “In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

436. “I’ve known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, ‘Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?’ I would say, ‘Astrophysicist .’ And then they’d walk away real quickly.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

437. “All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.”

— Pema Chödrön

Also featured in: Ego Quotes

438. “I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.”

— John Wayne

439. “In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...”

— George Orwell

440. “The truth hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.”

— John Green

441. “To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

442. “When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.”

— Fred Rogers

Also featured in: Strong Quotes

443. “Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.”

— Oscar Wilde

444. “I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you’re supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.”

— Quincy Jones

445. “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.”

— Eckhart Tolle

446. “In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.”

— Swami Vivekananda

447. “Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.”

— J. C. Ryle

448. “We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.”

— Blaise Pascal

449. “A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.”

— Francis Bacon

450. “You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.”

— Neil Gaiman