Real Quotes - Page 418

God's light is real, it is available to all. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound.

I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.

I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.

Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as our continent is sick. Most Africans remain plugged into reality. In contrast we have become disconnected from it, reduced to compulsively consuming units, taught to worship 'economic growth' - the ultimate unreality in a finite world.

I always want my shoes real clean. The front of my shoe is really like my personality, where off the court I'm kind of calm and kind of shy a little bit - low key. In the back, it's kind of crazy, just like me on the court. I love how both of my personalities are involved into the shoe.

The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.

Exploring - that's what you have to do to find yourself sexually. You always think you have it figured out, and then you get older and you realize you didn't.

How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being is our own inner joy that expresses the exuberance and wonder of being alive at this moment; it is our own self-luminous essence made conscious of itself.

Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.

The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.

Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines.

I now realize there are millions of self-made millionaires who started with nothing. They dug inside themselves to find the answers and they succeeded. There is nothing anyone else can do that I can't do.

The golden rule of friendship is to listne to others as you would have them listen to you.

Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer keeping my eyes wide open.

Besides, if I wanted to hear people speaking wall-to-wall French, all I had to do was remove my headphones and participate in what is known as ‘real life,’ a concept as uninviting as a shampoo cocktail.

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

We are consciousness whether we are in this reality or whether we are not in this reality; we are eternal consciousness.

The vast majority of people in any organization, even quite high up, have got no idea who the real masters are.

If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.

I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an afterlife. And I don't.

I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

My life here is perfect and I'm happy at Real Madrid so, of course, I want to stay as long as I can.