R Quotes
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“Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.”
“Real-world connections most often tend to cut against stereotypes. They can be remarkably calming, in fact—a small but potent way to reset a bad mood or challenge broader feelings of mistrust. The only thing is that in order to get there, you do first need to lay down your shield.”
Source: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
“Real world movies or shows that are about things that actually happen versus having superpowers, there's a little bit of a fantasy element to it.”
“Real worship involves waiting.”
Source: Bruno's dream
“Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.”
“Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.”
“Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.”
“Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.”
“Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call us small w writers-get considerably more feedback than Writers. The letters I personally find most flattering are not the very rare ones that speak well of my editorials, but the occasional reader who wants to know who writes them. I always happily assume the letter-writers is implying that the editorials are so good that I couldn't have written them myself.”
“Real writing is about changing lives for eternity rather than entertaining a life for a moment.”
“Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.”
“Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.”
Source: THE PETER PRESCRIPTION HOW TO MAKE THINGS GO RIGHT
“Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.”
“Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget,
Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.”
“Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.”
“Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.”
“Real. Does that make me imaginary?”
“Realidade é relativo. Viver com os pés no chão ou a cabeça nas nuvens é o que determina.”
Source: Lucas & Carol
“Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised.”
“Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage”
Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
“Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.”
“Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.”
“Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used to say, attachment for Kâma-Kânchana (sense-pleasure and wealth). In the perfect realisation of love, even the consciousness of one's own body does not exist. Also, the supreme Jnana is to realise the oneness everywhere, to see one's own self as the Self in everything. That too cannot come so long as there is the least consciousness of the ego (Aham).”
“Realisation of the Self (attaining Soul) is itself a samadhi (state of inner bliss). Samadhi will not leave amidst eating, drinking sitting, standing, it is a natural and spontaneous (sahaj) samadhi, it is a vitrag vignan (science of the ones who are free from all attachments, the enlightened ones).”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Realise, fool, idiot, that it is not your potential that counts; it is what you are now and think now. Tomorrow is nothing; it does not exist.”
“Realise, fool,
Idiot, that it
Is not your
Potential that counts.
It is what you are now,
What you are thinking now,
Here. Tomorrow is nothing.
It does not exist.
Today, we lay the patterns
For tomorrow.
Today is the time to
Change everything.
Not next week,
For Christ's sake.
Remember this,
Of course, the whole
Answer is summed up
In one neat word –
Death.”
“Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.”
“Realise that sex is the nature’s gift for both the sexes. If you mistake that you’ve more to give than receive in it, then the woman in you would lose as wife for you won’t be able to experience the joy of being a female. So don’t ever demean lovemaking as an instrument of sexual blackmail. It pays you to know that sex is not about male satiation alone but it is as much a womanly fulfillment,”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“Realise that there is no necessity to always be serious.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them.”
Source: The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity
“Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.”
“Realise this: one day your soul
will depart from your body and you will
be drawn behind the curtain that floats between us
and the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy,
because you don't know where you came from and
you don't know where you will be going.”
“Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.”
“Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.”
“Realised that there are THREE kinds of People in this World. The people who are with you ONLY during your really bad times - Showing You Concern, Pity, Love and Care.
The Second kind who are there for You ONLY in your Good Times showering their appreciation, compliments and time with You.
The Third Kind are the ones who You need to CHERISH all your life because their presence in your life is constant, permanent and unwavering. They are with you in the BEST and WORST Moments of your Life. They are Genuinely there sharing your joys and sorrows. Never Let Go of such Loved Ones.❤️”
“Realising that Mauritius could be a valuable port of call for Dutch ships Heemskerck put a rooster and some hens ashore and planted orange and lemon seeds, invoking 'the Almighty God's blessing that He may lend His power to make them multiply and grow for the benefit of those who will visit the island after us'.”
Source: Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
“Realising that you are lucky ... is knowing you are in a time and place in the world where there is so much opportunity available to you thanks to those who came before that is a realisation that will give you the power to get on in life.”
“Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“Realising your potential and spirituality begins with seeing yourself as imperfect, with the intent of working towards perfection.”
“Realising your potentials and spirituality begins with seeing yourself as imperfect with the intent of working towards perfection.”
“Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.”
“Realism and art cannot live together.”
“Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great works of art rely on the eye of contemplation, the eye of the spirit.”
“Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often 10 times better.”
“Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to a kind of acquiescence in spheres of influence. Now, spheres of influence sound good if you're a graduate student, or a certain kind of - an academic with a certain habit of mind. But in fact, spheres of influence don't work out very well, certainly not for the victims, and there are always victims.”
“Realism can break a writer's heart.”
“Realism does not deny the existence of bad outcomes nor does it guarantee the eventuality of good ones. It simply focuses on accepting what has happened and concentrating on the importance of what comes next.”
“Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.”
“Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth.”