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Poems & Prayers: Matthew McConaughey's brand new inspirational book
- Author
- Matthew McConaughey
- Narrator
- Matthew McConaughey
- Publisher
- Headline
- Publish Date
- 16 September 2025
- Run Time
- 2 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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My prayers are my poems are my prayers.
I've always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world.
A prescriptionist at heart, I've always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and reality to get to the dream.
I've been finding that tougher to do lately. It's more than hard to know what to believe in; it's hard to believe.
But I don't want to quit believing, and I don't want to stop believing in . . . humanity, you, myself, our potential.
I think it's time for us to flip the script on what's historically been our means of making sense, and instead open our aperture to enchantment and look to faith, belief, and dreams for our reality.
Let's sing more than we might make sense, believe in more than the world can conclude, get more impressed with the wow instead of the how, let inspiration interrupt our appointments, dream our way to reality, serve some soul food to our hungry heads, put proof on the shelf for a season, and rhyme our way to reason.
Forget logic, certainty, owning, or making a start-up company of it; let's go beyond what we can merely imagine, and believe, in the poetry of life.
Critics Review
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Praise for Greenlights
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Brilliant
Financial Times
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A rollicking, contemplative trip
Financial Times
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Gloriously bonkers
Guardian
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Unflinchingly honest and remarkably candid, Matthew McConaughey's book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did - and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand
Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
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A wild ride through his memories
Evening Standard
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McConaughey's own story is arguably more interesting than any character he has embodied on the silver screen over the decades
USA Today
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Both calming and laugh, laugh, laugh-out-loud funny
Washington Post
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Delightfully voicey
GQ
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Details
- Author
- Matthew McConaughey
- Narrator
- Matthew McConaughey
- Duration
- 2 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9781035405565
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Headline
- Genre
- Memoirs, Individual actors and performers, Films, cinema, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Poetry / poems by individual poets, Religion and beliefs
Synopsis
From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief. My prayers are my poems are my prayers.I've always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world.A prescriptionist at heart, I've always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and reality to get to the dream.I've been finding that tougher to do lately. It's more than hard to know what to believe in; it's hard to believe.But I don't want to quit believing, and I don't want to stop believing in . . . humanity, you, myself, our potential.I think it's time for us to flip the script on what's historically been our means of making sense, and instead open our aperture to enchantment and look to faith, belief, and dreams for our reality.Let's sing more than we might make sense, believe in more than the world can conclude, get more impressed with the wow instead of the how, let inspiration interrupt our appointments, dream our way to reality, serve some soul food to our hungry heads, put proof on the shelf for a season, and rhyme our way to reason.Forget logic, certainty, owning, or making a start-up company of it; let's go beyond what we can merely imagine, and believe, in the poetry of life.
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