Becoming Real Quotes

• Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

  Margery Williams

  Real, Eye, Hair

  Margery Williams Bianco (2016). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or, How Toys Become Real”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.

  Margery Williams

  Life, Time, Educational

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.13, Marshall Cavendish

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• When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

  Margery Williams

  Hurt, Real, Mind

  Margery Williams Bianco (2016). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or, How Toys Become Real”, p.4, Lulu.com

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• When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

  Margery Williams

  Children, Real, Love You

  The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)

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• Real isn't how you are made... It's a thing that happens to you.

  Margery Williams

  Real, Rabbits, Made

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• Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.

  Margery Williams

  Hurt, Horse, Children

  The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)

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• Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: 'You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.

  John Green

  Girl, Real, Ideas

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• By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Self, Gains

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• I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

  Sean Parker

  Real, Imagination, Entrepreneur

  Facebook: Sean Parker, www.facebook.com.

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• We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say that it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Temptation, Vision

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of *what we're supposed to be* is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.

  Brené Brown

  Real, Light, Support

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.96, Penguin

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• Shut up," I hissed. Ticked that he was taller than me, I stepped up onto a nearby coffee table. "I'm not in a cage anymore," I said, keeping enough presence of mind not to poke him in the chest with a finger. His face went startled, then cloric. "The only thing between your head and my foot becoming real close and personal right now is my questionable professionalism. And if you ever threaten me again, I'll slam you halfway across the room before you can say number-two pencil. Got it, you tall freak of nature?

  Kim Harrison

  Real, Coffee, Presence Of Mind

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• Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, Fall, Getting Back Up

  "All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir". Book by Brennan Manning and John Blase, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2011.

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