Quotes About Realization

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

I guess sometimes there are moments when people's lives change and they don't even know it. They can look back later, when everything's different, and say yes, that was the start of it?that's when it all began, and I didn't even notice.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place, they're capable of anything.

Without realizing it, most people become deadened to their emotions. Early in their lives they turn their backs on themselves, their real desires and wants, and substitute self-nourishing habits and fantasies that only serve to deaden them.

realizing it, most people become deadened to their emotions. Early in their lives they turn their backs on themselves, their real desires and wants, and substitute self-nourishing habits and fantasies that only serve to deaden them. They

In this Gospel, Jesus reminds seekers, "It will not come by waiting for it." He said to them, "What you look forward to has already come, but you do not recognize it.

When once you realize your own Self, and that there is nothing other than this Self, you will come to look upon the whole universe as the Self.

Caer… caer siempre más bajo. Y sin embargo, otros hombres son felices, encuentran el amor, pero todos sufren. Lo que ocurre es que unos se dan cuenta y otros no. Algunos lo atribuyen a lo que no tienen. Pero qué sueño estúpido ése.

That was when I realized I was leaving my footprints all around the room. The soles of my feet were covered with blood. While continuing to move around, I carefully examined the prints. Suddenly I felt like laughing. They were dance steps. The footprints of St. Vitus. Footprints leading nowhere.

For a moment I thought he was going to cry, but suddenly, before he said anything, I realized that I'd be the one who cried, that inevitably, it would be me who cried.

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return.

How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool? Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice

You never miss the water until the well runs dry.

For a very brief period I was happy, and, an even rarer gift, I knew I was happy.

He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.

Have you ever suddenly realized that there was someone you loved, but presently did not like very much?

When you want a thing so badly for so long, and then it comes time to face that you cannot have it, sometimes—' 'Sometimes you can't believe it when it comes to you. Sometimes you're afraid to believe it. I understand your hesitation.

It was all so meaningless when I looked at it that way. It was meaningless in the same way as when I stood up from a game and then looked down on the scatter of playing pieces, and realized that they all were just bits of polished stone on a wooden board marked with squares. All the meaning they'd had moments before when I'd been trying to win a game were meanings that I'd imbued them with. Of themselves, neither they nor the board had any significance.

Understanding how or why is seldom as useful as understanding that things are.

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt.

A man has to have a purpose in life. I know this now, but it took me the first score years of my life to learn it. In that I scarcely think myself unique.

And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.

It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.

In a moment all became clear to me. How stupid could I have been?