Real - Quotes
Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they`re scared for the fear to become real.
The chief proof of man`s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
We all have a thirst for wonder. It`s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I`m saying is, you don`t have to make stories up, you don`t have to exaggerate. There`s wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature`s a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.
You could claim that anything`s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody`s proved it doesn`t exist!
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilisation.
Reality means you live until you die. [...] The real truth is nobody wants reality.
It`s only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, Heaven or Hell is born. Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: "I made some mistakes, but I wasn`t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do."
If motherhood has taught me anything, it is that I cannot change my children, I can only change myself. Try as I might, I can’t shape either one of them to my desires or designs, but I can choose, moment by moment and day by day, my own reaction to who they are. So perhaps my real job now, and in the year ahead, isn’t to direct my sons’ lives, but to work on becoming more thoughtful and deliberate about my own.
As you get older, I think you'll find that the real reason we have birthday celebrations is not because it's important to the birthday girl/boy, but that it's important to people who care about them.