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By: Matthew McConaughey
Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey
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Summary

 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.©2025 Matthew McConaughey Entertainment & Celebrities Entertainment & Performing Arts Film & TV Poetry Themes & Styles Dream Funny Heartfelt Witty
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Critic Reviews

Praise for Greenlights
Brilliant
A rollicking, contemplative trip
Gloriously bonkers
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
McConaughey's own story is arguably more interesting than any character he has embodied on the silver screen over the decades
Both calming and laugh, laugh, laugh-out-loud funny
Delightfully voicey
All stars
Most relevant
Matthew McConaughey recites his life’s work of profoundly poignant poems & proverbs, with passion and purpose.

A beautiful continuation from his book green lights showcasing McConaughey’s raw, uncut, yet graceful ability to mix his soulful faith with an outlaw wisdom and then put it in prose.

If fate didn’t provide us with the movie star McConaughey we might’ve got the country singer version instead.

5/5 take a ride

Greatness is not all to each, it is each to all

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Great listen - fully rad dude take what you want from it but there are some positive vibes to be taken in 🤙🏼

The guy is calm with a super rad view of life.

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all stepping in shit all the time we fuck up we cross thousands of ducks is in our life it's enviable

story telling

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Would be able to listen to this man read the phone book then start from back to front.
His talent on screen is also fantastic.
I’d like to thank him for all of his heart he has shared throughout his gifts.🍸🍸

The story teller

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Particularly insightful especially read by the author, it fills in the little holes you have in your soul, and in the end, life ain't so bad. Alright alright alright.

Just what I needed to hear

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