Quotes About Realization

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are many things I've written that I didn't really understand until a long time later.

The only time I know that something is true is the moment I discover it in the act of writing.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it.

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

It takes a long time to fully become who you are.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.

It was kind of unexpected, to wake up one day and realize that the things that you've worked so hard to accomplish, you've accomplished in so little an amount of time.

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

One day/ One day I waited for myself/ I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came/ So I could know just who I am/ I who know others.

The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'

I get very excited about my double stroller. Every time I look at it, I get a shot of adrenaline and joy because I think, This is real!

Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

Mrs. Blessing was surprised at how fluently she lied, much better than she'd done it years before, when it had been so much more important, at least to her. She realized that lying was easier than telling the truth because it had such nice smooth edges, not jagged with impossibility and inconvenience the way the truth so often was.

Nora remembered drawing in the sand of her future with a stick. What she couldn't recall was when the sand had become cement, the who-I-want-to-be turned for once and for all into who-I-am.