Real Quotes - Page 790

We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.

It is precisely when you are loved a lot that you might realize a second loneliness which is not to be solved but lived. This second loneliness is an existential loneliness that belongs to the basis of our being. It's where we are unfulfilled because only God can fill us.

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact, it matters more than pain, illness, or even death.

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.

I didn’t realize that pretending to be this ‘Hills Heidi,’ this spoiled rich girl who I wasn’t, would almost destroy me.

A mine-free world does not need to be a dream - together, we can make it a reality.

It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, 'Oh, you girl!'

It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

Maybe the star doesnt even exist any more.Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

When markets go down, opportunities go up for smart real estate investors. I would much rather play the downturn than the upturn.

Enforcement alone does not work. Unless we address the gap between our immigration laws and reality, illegal immigration will not stop and the situation on the border will continue to be chaotic.

There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process.

If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never be put in a house or over a house, any way. Good housekeeping lies at he root of all the real ease and satisfaction in existence.

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.

Nothin’s real scary except in books.

Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.