“It’s okay to love something a little too much, as long as it’s real to you.” – Gerard Way
“I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.” – Tyler Knott Gregson
“Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.” – Amit Kalantri
“Forget about being impressive and commit to being real. Because being real is impressive!” – Jonathan Harnisch
"If you can be anything, be real." – Nikki Rowe
“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
“Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart, be real, but most importantly be nice.” – Germany Kent
“You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldn't have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be real with each other” – J.M. Richards
“Wake up to realities! Real life is all about real things!" – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"You will remain where you are…, until you change your mindset." -
“Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of." – Dan Pearce
“The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!” – Shannon L. Alder
“But we have to learn to be free. We have to, Nell. Doesn't mean happy all the time, or okay all the time. It's okay not to be okay. I told you that, but I'm relearning it myself. But not being okay doesn't mean you stop living." – Jasinda Wilder
“Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free." – C. Terry Warner
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“The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too." – Ashly Lorenzana
“Real is better, the truth is better. Painful but better." – Cath Crowley
“The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.” – Vera Nazarian
“Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
“It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all.” – Nikki Rowe
“Real is hard to find, and sometimes harder to differentiate. Fakes is acceptable by many, because its takes a lot of strength and courage to be real and more to stay REAL.” – Annelise Lords
“What we have is often more important than what we will have simply because what we have is real!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“And just as you utter these words, I know with unshakable certainty that those few minutes when we walk hand in hand together are, even in a dream, more real and better than anything I'd ever known in life, and that I would be lying if I called what I've been doing all these years living.” – André Aciman
“I am the kind of person who will love the real version of you no matter how bad and broken than accepting the perfect and polished but fake version of you.” – Mahrukh
"I was transformed the day my ego shattered, and all the superficial, material things that mattered to me before, suddenly ceased to matter." – Suzy Kassem
“The sick constriction of the heart was undeniable; there was a melancholy truth in the fact that it was suffering which made me, I thought, at last real to myself.” – Alfred Hayes
“So much possibility lives within the beauty of your authenticity. Be real." – Scott Stabile
“Eloquence. — We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases itself must be drawn from the true.” – Blaise Pascal
“Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle.” – James Clavell
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else." – Judy Garland
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou
“Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.” – Meg Medina
"You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?" - Dr. Seuss
"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself." – Bobby Brow
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“Be who you were created to be, and you will set the world on fire.” - St. Catherine of Sienna
“The truer you are to yourself, the greater your gifts will manifest themselves.” Tiffany L. Jackson
“You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.” – Irene C. Kassorla
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee