Real Quotes

“The great thing is to direct the malice to his immediate neighbours whom he meets every day and to thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference, to people he does not know. The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary. There is no good at all in inflaming his hatred of Germans if, at the same time, a pernicious habit of charity is growing up between him and his mother, his employer, and the man he meets in the train. Think of your man as a series of concentric circles, his will being the innermost, his intellect coming next, and finally his fantasy. You can hardly hope, at once, to exclude from all the circles everything that smells of the Enemy: but you must keep on shoving all the virtues outward till they are finally located in the circle of fantasy, and all the desirable qualities inward into the Will. It is only in so far as they reach the will and are there embodied in habits that the virtues are really fatal to us. (I don’t, of course, mean what the patient mistakes for his will, the conscious fume and fret of resolutions and clenched teeth, but the real centre, what the Enemy calls the Heart.) All sorts of virtues painted in the fantasy or approved by the intellect or even, in some measure, loved and admired, will not keep a man from our Father’s house: indeed they may make him more amusing when he gets there.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Sometimes people fake perfection. But the people who show their mistakes are real, and they are the creators in the world.”
― Avijeet Das

“I cannot help observing that beneath his defiance is fear. I know what it is to say the clever thing because you don't want anyone to know how scared you are. It doesn't make me like him any better, but for the first time he seems real. Not good, but real.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I don't have the privilege of independently thinking about gender and race.”
― Sharon Lee De La Cruz, I'm a Wild Seed: My Graphic Memoir on Queerness and Decolonizing the World

“There's no point in making something if you don't think it could be great.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

“Imagino que tener una hermana debe de ser así, alguien que te quiere lo suficiente para señalarte todos tus defectos.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Our inability to fulfill our (true) needs can sometimes give rise to self-deceptions intended to disguise this painful reality. Most psychotherapeutic methods involve helping patients liberate themselves from self-deception. What makes reality therapy different is the centrality of this project to the method. Reality therapy is all about getting people to stop bullshitting themselves so they can get on with the business of solving the real problem. At no point does the reality therapist ever allow a patient to get away with denying reality, no matter how painful accepting it may be initially.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, The Comeback Quotient: A Get-Real Guide to Building Mental Fitness in Sport and Life

“To live is to express oneself freely in creation. Creation, I must say, is not a fixed something. At best, Bruce Lee presents a possible direction, and nothing more. You are free to make your own choice and express your instinctive potentiality. I am actualizing myself daily to be an artist of life! In life, what can you ask for but to fulfill your potential and be real!”
― Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

“Perhaps Dernhil knew there was no time. He had foresight..." Cadvan sighed and looked away. "But he was ever one who looked clearly into his own heart. That is the beauty of his poems. Would that all of us were so lucid.”
― Alison Croggon, The Singing

“Never forget that in the simple act of wishing you have already begun the process of making the wish real. Therefore, I wonder how many things are waiting on us to make them real.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To make it real, think of it more.”
― Isaac A. Yowetu

“Love doesn't have to be forever to be real.”
― Heidi Heilig, The Ship Beyond Time

“A scaled-down version of the clash between the real and the virtual and its fantastic consequences at the planetary level: the dissociation between a very high-frequency virtual space and a zero-frequency real space. The two no longer have anything in common, nor is there any communication between them: the unconditional extension of the virtual (which includes not just the new images or remote simulation, but the whole cyberspace of geo-finance, the space of multimedia and the information superhighways) brings with it an unprecedented desertification of real space and of all that surrounds us. The information superhighways will have the same effect as our present superhighways or motorways. They will cancel out the landscape, lay waste to the territory and abolish real distances.
What is merely physical and geographical in the case of our motorways will assume its full dimensions in the electronic field with the abolition of mental distances and the absolute shrinkage of time. All short circuits (and the establishment of this planetary hyperspace is tantamount to one immense short circuit) produce electric shocks. What we see emerging here is no longer merely territorial desert, but social desert, employment desert, the body itself being laid waste by the very concentration of information. A kind of Big Crunch, contemporaneous with the Big Bang of the financial markets and the information networks. We are merely at the dawning of the process, but the waste and the wastelands are already growing much faster than the computerization process itself. The two worlds, though literally cut off from each other, are equally exponential. But the discrepancy between them does not create any new political situation or genuine crisis, for memory fades at the same time as does the real. The discrepancy is only virtually catastrophic.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Screened Out

“The snake is the anchor in hiding and he’s in the left corner. For some reason, he’s got the fake anchor out there taking the heat while he sits there taking it all in. Maybe he doesn’t like the spotlight. Maybe there is some strategic advantage to the room not knowing he’s the man, but he is. Fortunately for everyone, the snake move only works a few times within a company before word gets out who the real anchor is.”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

“I was real with you. I did not fake myself. And I hope you know that psychology says we show our real side to people we trust.”
― Avijeet Das

“I don't believe in pretending. I show you the real me.”
― Avijeet Das

“Life is not all about being rich,
Or popular, or highly educated,
Virtually perfect with no stitch.
It’s about being real ad elated,
Not down by things that itch,
Growth by loving not deflated.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic

“What is loud in you is not a part of you.”
― Syed Buali Gillani

“Meaning is the appearance of the real in words.”
― Syed Buali Gillani

“Girls can cry very easily, it is very difficult to understand which is real and which is dramatic.”
― Saju

“As realistic as the views on your status update.”
― DON SANTO

“If that was a cliché, it was the truest cliché that ever was.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, Peter

“She’d never breathed those words to life because if she didn’t admit them, maybe they wouldn’t be real.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Constitution Check

“We have to get over the fear of being seen in a certain imperfect light if we want to stand any chance of really shining and being real, healed, and whole again.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from an Unreal World - Reclaim Your Hidden Self, Practise Unconditional Self-Acceptance, and Live Real

“Real truth is only found in gray areas.”
― Omamode Okumgba

“The masses are in an illusion that the government and media have created.”
― Steven Magee

“Free Ice Cream shows people how everything can be made ABSOLUTELY FREE for everyone. Is this real? Is this possible? Is this too good to be true?”
― Ganesh Natarajan, Free Ice Cream

“El orgullo es lo único que me queda, dice Bao. Es lo único que tenemos. Están quitándonos todo lo demás.”
― Richelle Mead, Soundless

“I always perform a real time risk assessment on police officers that are interacting with me.”
― Steven Magee

“Search within and you will find happiness so real.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Dear Daughter: Short and Sweet Messages for a Queen