I’m not perfect. But I’ll always be real. — Tupac Shakur

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Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through due practice you can even eventually come into the state attained by the sages, saints and saviors of mankind. And so you try to control your behavior, to control your thoughts, to be something unnatural.

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

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We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real talents, but so often the 30 year slog knocks it out of people.

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The only real problem in your life is how you're using your mind.

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I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect. - Adam Sandler

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It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole. — Jane Fonda

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Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.- Cristiano Ronaldo

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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

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