Real Quotes
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801. “Adults are the real monsters.”

— Stephen King

802. “Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well, don’t waste your time waiting.”

— Bruce Springsteen

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803. “Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Quotes About Investing

804. “The more boundless your vision, the more real you are.”

— Deepak Chopra

805. “Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.”

— Nhat Hanh

806. “Perception is real, truth is not. I’m not fighting for money and possessions. I’m fighting for something more precious. I pray that as we enter the cyber age – the Age of Transparency – the facts and the truth will out.”

— Imelda Marcos

807. “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

— Cormac McCarthy

808. “Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

809. “A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

810. “The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.”

— Aristotle

811. “Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended.”

— T. S. Eliot

812. “No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.”

— Napoleon Hill

813. “Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

814. “Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man’s will and his environment: in a word, of problem.”

— George Bernard Shaw

815. “The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

816. “In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.”

— Douglas Adams

817. “The real safeguard of democracy is education.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

818. “The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.”

— Thomas A. Edison

819. “The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.”

— Tom Robbins

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820. “The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.”

— Marcel Proust

821. “Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected.”

— Oswald J. Smith

822. “The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.”

— George Orwell

823. “The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.”

— C. S. Lewis

824. “The Internet is a big distraction. It’s distracting, it’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere.”

— Ray Bradbury

825. “After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn’t bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it’s a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it’s sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we’re doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”

— Paulo Coelho

826. “The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.”

— George Bernard Shaw

827. “Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.”

— Bell Hooks

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828. “Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.”

— Erin Morgenstern

829. “Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.”

— Cormac McCarthy

830. “Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity. Irrespective of whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, whether Buddhist, Christian, or Jew, the important thing is to be a good human being.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

831. “Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.”

— Milton Friedman

832. “Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment’s glance.”

— Victor Hugo

833. “All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.”

— C. S. Lewis

834. “The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.”

— Franz Kafka

835. “The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.”

— Thomas Merton

836. “Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.”

— Steven Morrissey

837. “The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe. They can’t both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn’t fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction.”

— C. S. Lewis

838. “I don’t really dream, I space out during the day – that’s one of my problems wonder off when someone’s talking to me. I can’t remember any dreams in my life. There’s so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.”

— Tim Burton

839. “What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.”

— Mark Twain

840. “At night my mind does not much care if what it thinks is here or there. It tells me stories, it invents and makes up things that don’t make sense. I do not know why it does this stuff. The real world seems quite weird enough.”

— Shel Silverstein

841. “The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.”

— George Washington

842. “Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.”

— Napoleon Hill

843. “Many sisters complain that people don’t want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn’t request you to take it off in the first place.”

— Omar Suleiman

844. “The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real; it brings immortality to all and opens the door to eternal life. The gospel of Jesus Christ is again on the earth. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is true and living.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

845. “To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.”

— Vincent van Gogh

846. “In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, ‘Your home is not an asset.’ Real estate agents sent me hate mail.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

847. “The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”

— George Orwell

848. “God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

849. “The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone’s problem, be aware that most people aren’t going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question.”

— Jim Rohn

850. “I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer.”

— Mahatma Gandhi