Quotes About Realization

I'm satisfied in a way because this is an eye opener for me, ... I didn't have the success I've always been able to have. I learned a lot.

Success is not a goal, it's a byproduct.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

I would say that in the past year I have had to begrudgingly admit that I am finally a success of some level, sure.

I still haven't come to grips with our success.

I think maybe I was numb to it last year.. but you know I feel it now more than ever

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

On my word, I think you are right, Lucien, said Albert absently.

he looked up with the satisfied air of a man who thinks he has made a discovery when he has commented on someone else's idea

Spesso passiamo in tal modo accanto alal felicità snza vederla, senza guardarla, oppure, se l'abbiamo vista e guardata, senza riconoscerla.!

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.

Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers through hers. Gretel looked up at him, so startled she might as well have been shot. 'I just wanted to wake you up', he said. Which is exactly what he did. One look at him and her heart was racing. One look, and whatever had been before was all over.

How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I'd had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.

and from then on whenever he smells lilacs he'll think about this moment. How the bees were circling above him, how purple the ink on the leaflets he's been distributing suddenly seemed, how he realized, all at once, just how beautiful a woman can be.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

Some people know the exact moment when they've lost everything. They can look back and see it plain as day and for the life of them they can't understand why they didn't spot the situation as it was happening.

Perhaps what people said was true, that any man who lived long enough would eventually realize that the way in which he was cursed was also the blessing he received.

I was so unaccustomed to such emotions it took some time before I realized I was happy.

We know what we need when we get it, Brock Stewart had once said. Elinor understood this to be true whenever she heard Jenny in the hallway, when she looked up from her work in the garden to see a light burning in the kitchen. She knew it when the kettle on the back burner of the stove whistled, when the back door opened and shut, when the house she lived in wasn't empty. She hadn't understood how alone she'd been until she was no longer alone. She had cut herself off...

She had been wrong about love. She had thought it was meant for fools alone, only to discover it was a fool who walked away from love, no matter the cost or the penalty.

They've become sleepwalkers, wandering through their own nightmares, each avoiding the others for fear that a word, a conversation, a kiss will make them realize they aren't dreaming.

In doing so, he understood who he was. In that moment, in his aunt's greenhouse, he felt more alone than ever.