Quotes About Realization

She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn't imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn't really imagine it hadn't.

She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that at all. Maybe it happened in a million different ways, when you were thinking of it and you weren't. Maybe there was no gap, no jump, no chasm. You didn't forget yourself all at once. Maybe you just looked around one time or another and you thought, Hey. And there you were.

She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

For nine years Paul had not called her by her name. She had always been Shorty or Kid or You to him since she was twelve. It wasn't until her first night working as a waitress at the yacht club that Alice realized this

All of a sudden it dawned on me. I knew. I just knew. I was adopted, and my adoption papers were in there. If I were adopted, that would explain why I didn't look like anyone in my family, why I didn't act like anyone in my family, and why there were so few pictures of me. I wasn't Mom and Dad's real kid. I was an unwanted baby, or an orphan like Emily Michelle.

I could tell.

Then I realized I smelled like horses and manure

It is time we realized that we need not be unreasonable to suffuse our lives with love, compassion, ecstasy, and awe; nor must we renounce all forms of spirituality or mysticism to be on good terms with reason

My goal in this chapter and the next is to convince you that the conventional sense of self is an illusion—and that spirituality largely consists in realizing this, moment to moment.

When will we realize that the concessions we have made to faith in our political discourse have prevented us from even speaking about, much less uprooting, the most prolific source of violence in our history?

I'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.

I used to think I had integrity but I came to realize it was just sloth.

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

He now found that it would be very difficult to effect that which it was very easy to suppose effected.

gave a sharp cry of realization just as hands, which she had

When I realized that by "no one" this man was referring to approximately 750,000 children, I knew that I had found my passion and my cause.

They were both so young and both so sure that life would work out exactly as they hoped. Well, already plans and vows lay shattered across the floor. Could they not see that?

It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here

I stared at him for a long time. If he wanted to end his search for the beast, he need look no further than a mirror.

stared at him for a long time. If he wanted to end his search for the beast, he need look no further than a mirror.

He stands up, slowly, and puts his hands on the zipper of his jeans, where I notice there's a bulge that looks like someone stuck a cucumber in his pants. That can be his...thing, can it? He undoes the button then his fly and then slides his jeans down. He's wearing those tight boxer-briefs things, like that guy in the Calvin Klein commercial, and I realize, it's definitely not a cucumber.

It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.