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Matthew McConaughey Poems & Prayers

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Code 9781035405541

From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights, an inspiring collection of personal poetry and prayers for finding purpose, hope, and satisfaction in a rapidly changing world, fil..

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Binding: Hardback

Date Published: 16 Sep 2025

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.

About the Author

Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author Matthew McConaughey is a husband and a father, an eternal optimist, a hopeful skeptic, and a man of faith who believes that we should all start sellin' Sunday morning like a Saturday night.

McConaughey is a professor of practice at the University of Texas in Austin and co-owner of The Austin FC soccer club. He and his wife, Camila, founded the just keep livin Foundation, which is dedicated to helping boys and girls transform into good men and women through programs that teach the importance of decision-making, health, education, and active living. McConaughey resides with Camila and their three children in Austin, Texas.

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Praise for Greenlights
Brilliant * Financial Times *
A rollicking, contemplative trip * Financial Times *
Gloriously bonkers * Guardian *
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
A wild ride through his memories * Evening Standard *
McConaughey's own story is arguably more interesting than any character he has embodied on the silver screen over the decades * USA Today *
Both calming and laugh, laugh, laugh-out-loud funny * Washington Post *
Delightfully voicey * GQ *

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