Being Real Quotes

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  Never apologize for what you feel. It's like being sorry for being real.

  Lil Wayne

  Sorry, Real, Inspiration

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• The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Running, Volleyball

  "El Guerrouj digs deep for long-awaited gold" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2004.

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• Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

  Pema Chodron

  Relationship, Real, Compassion

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• I'd rather be real and hated, than fake and loved.

  Alli Simpson

  Real, Fake, Hated

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• Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Positive, Meaningful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Trying

  Song: Precious, Album: Esperanza, 2008

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• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

  Andre Gide

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1925). “Young India”

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• Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Children, Freedom, Real

  "‘Four Agreements’ Author Don Miguel Ruiz Reveals How Doubt Can Lead To Happiness" by don Miguel Angel Ruiz, don Jose Ruiz, with Janet Mills, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2013.

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• be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Real

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  Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Beautiful, Being Yourself

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.

  Tupac Shakur

  Fake People, Rapper, Lots Of Friends

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  Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

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• It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

  Billy Gibbons

  Real, Be Good

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.

  Arto Lindsay

  Real, Guitar, Being Different

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• The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

  Edward Bach

  Strong, Real, Medical Science

  Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.9, McGraw Hill Professional

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• He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Real, Hair, Issues

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• I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Powerful, Fear, Real

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• The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Real, Self, Language

  Hans-Georg Gadamer (2008). “Philosophical Hermeneutics”, p.65, Univ of California Press

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• I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive.

  Elvis Stojko

  Real, Way, Intense

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• Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

  Havelock Ellis

  Real, Responsibility, Needs

  Havelock Ellis (2012). “Little Essays of Love and Virtue”, p.46, tredition

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• True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

  Garth Brooks

  Country, Honesty, Real

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• When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.

  Philippe Halsman

  Photography, Real, Fall

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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