Quotes About Realization

She believed in the miraculous. Or she had, until she reached an age when, all of a sudden, she realized that the life she was living, was in fact, her life . The clay of her being, so long infinitely malleable, had been formed, hardened into what now seemed a palpable, unchanging object. A shell she inhabited. It shocked her then. It shocked her now, like a slap in the face.

In times of grief, you're waiting for something to happen, but the thing you're waiting for has already taken place.

She believed in the miraculous. Or she had, until she reached an age when, all of a sudden, she realized that the life she was living was, in fact, her life. The clay of her being, so long infinitely malleable, had been formed, hardened into what now seemed a palpable, unchanging object, a shell she inhabited.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

It's not the story though, not the friend leaning toward you, saying "And then I realized—," which is the part of stories one never quite believes. I had the idea that the world's so full of pain it must sometimes make a kind of singing. And that the sequence helps, as much as order helps— First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing.

Some people live their entire life not knowing who they are, others live their life thinking they are something they are not. Only a luck few are blessed enough to find themselves in someone else.

Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we've got.

The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence... We make our discoveries while in the state because then we are clear-sighted.

There is all the difference in the world between knowing that a catastrophe is going to happen, and knowing that it has happened.

This one went unusually smoothly. When I finished it, I remarked to a friend that I felt like an engineer who had designed a machine and then sat back and realized it did everything I'd set out to do. Which made him say, quite emphatically, "No engineer has ever felt this.

arrived was one of Mr.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.

And sure enough, there it was, not the sought-after needle, but, to my agreeable astonishment, the haystack in the field by the lane.

Unaccustomed as I was to gracious dining, I realized in a flash that this wasn't it.

Esto funciona…

they can't see the opportunity staring them in the face.

I could see the light was going on in his head.

Seeing what is not effective is effective for understanding what is effective.

Awe is an intuition of the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.

across Jefferson Square to sanctuary in the inn. Good god, he thought, what have I gotten

In the sweet light of love I realized, or believed I realized, that perhaps the inward self is the only self which really exists.

It's gradually becoming "serious," my situation, I realize this.

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.