Quotes About Realization

And I thought, there's a sloth near. There's a sloth here, it's close, it's gonna happen. And I didn't know how to process that, because my entire life had been waiting for this moment.

I never expected that this would be my life.

I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!

Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?

As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.

The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

Life is a precious gift, but we realize this only when we give it to others.

Nash has been the sun lighting up the horizon of my life, outshining everything else in my world. I'd thought once that he was to good to be true. Turns out I was right.

The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life.

My God, what have we done?

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!

All those days that came and went, little did I know that they were life.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

Each person has his special moment of life when he unfolded himself to the fullest, felt to the deepest, and expressed himself to the utmost, to himself and to others.

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I'd set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.

It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.

Maybe you think you can wake up 50 percent, just enough to get beyond the "crazy" stage but not all the way to "wisdom." However, it's not the message of the Buddha or the intention of Buddhism to provide a partial recovery from confusion. The message of the Buddha is that you're awake now and that you can, if you apply yourself, realize it.

However, the path itself must eventually be abandoned, just as you abandon a boat when you reach the other shore. You must disembark once you have arrived. At the point of total realization, you must abandon Buddhism. The spiritual path is a temporary solution, a placebo to be used until emptiness is understood.