Quotes About Realization

My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people. But one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all around the house. I knew just what it was. In fact, when it happen, you can't miss it.

A cold realisation washed over me. From now on, my master would not always be there to protect and counsel me. 'This is big. Too big,' I said. 'What do I do?' 'You follow your destiny,' Ryoko said. 'As we all do. With honour and courage.

I felt something stir within me. It took a moment to recognise it. Anger.

When the lights came back on, Max the Little Monster felt something new. He began to notice things he hadn't noticed before.

He knew by experience that he absorbed everything, that every event was imprinted in his memory, but that sometimes months or years passed before he realized how deeply an episode had marked him. It was as if memory congealed somewhere, then suddenly, through some mechanism of association, appeared before his eyes with blinding intensity.

Realization hit her, but she didn't want to believe. Didn't want to be hurt.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew it had begun.

Pensé que había superado mi admiración por ella. Pensé que la había olvidado. Pero estaba equivocado.

As we run, we become.

The true tragedy of a routinely spent life is that its wastefulness does not become apparent till it is too late.

The true tragedy of routinely spent life is that its wastefulness does not become apparent till it is too late.

It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk. A few glasses of wine can be the difference between finding a man a hilarious companion or an insufferable moron.

And he realized then that he had not lost all those times in the training square because he lacked the skill, or the strength, or even a hand. He had lacked the will. And somewhere on the South Wind, somewhere in the trackless ice, somewhere in this ancient ruin, he had found it.

It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk.

Perhaps that was the moment you grew up, when you learned your parents were just as fallible as everyone else.

We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and find that we are...this.

Because he'd been hoping... perhaps he still was. But hoping had made a fool of him. And Shivers was good and sick of looking the fool.

He was also becoming aware of an unpleasant smell. Damn it. I've shit myself again.

But it is imperative to realize that behind every addiction, there is some memorized emotion that is driving the behavior.

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

By the time I knew it was a mistake, it was too late to come back. That's usually how it is.

Harper wondered, idly, why it took getting contaminated to notice the marriage itself was sick. He

At the end, I get to be the person I always wanted to be," she thought.

I've been thinking a lot and it's not that anyone did anything wrong. We just didn't know what we wanted. We weren't the people we were supposed to be yet