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

source: Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.14, Marshall Cavendish

topic: Real, Eye, Hair, Children's Books, Children's Literature

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

- Margery Williams

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

topic: Educational, Long, Children's Books, Real You, Becoming Real

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

- Margery Williams

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

topic: Hurt, Real, Being Hurt, Real You, Becoming Real

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

source: The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)

topic: Children, Real, Love You, Children's Books, Real You

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

- Margery Williams

topic: Real, Made, Real You, Becoming Real, Wedding Ceremony

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

source: The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)

topic: Hurt, Horse, Children, Children's Books, Real You

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

topic: Girl, Real, Ideas, Becoming Real

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

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Real, Self, Gains, Becoming Real

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

source: Facebook: Sean Parker, www.facebook.com.

topic: Real, Imagination, Entrepreneur, Cusp, Becoming Real

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

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

topic: Real, Temptation, Vision, Becoming Real

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

topic: Real, Light, Support, Daring Greatly, Becoming Real

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

topic: Real, Coffee, Two, Becoming Real, Presence Of Mind

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

topic: Real, Fall, Getting Back Up, Stumbling, Becoming Real