Quotes About Realization

All my life I had known one thing for sure about myself, and that was that my life would never be her life. I had moved as far and as fast as I could; now I was back at my beginning.

she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.

The truth was that their marriages were like balloons: some went suddenly pop, but more often than not the air slowly leaked out until it was a sad, wrinkled little thing with no life to it anymore.

First we were so young and then we were so busy and then one day we awoke to discover that we were an age we once thought of as old.

Once again she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.

I see clearly, now, the folly of throwing myself away on one that is unworthy of all the love I have to give and incapable of responding to the best and deepest feelings of my inmost heart.

Yes, in the sense that I felt a certain contentment. Not always, mind you. I moaned and groaned from time to time. But I was never downright depressed again, probably because I realized that sadness comes from feeling sorry for yourself and happiness from joy.

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.

I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.

And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me.

may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Sometimes the body experiences a revelation because it has abandoned every other possibility.

He stopped. He could see in her face that she had not even thought of that sort of love. The very idea of a consuming sexual passion which culminated in murder was something that had not occurred to her with regard to herself and the general.

We will all miss him, even if we don't know it is his absence that is hurting us.

Los hombres podían ser increíblemente tontos a veces, darse de bruces con lo evidente y aun así no verlo. Bien

I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!

Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.

I understand, I am just beginning, I am just beginning to understand

Because people don't believe it unless it happens to them.

And a sad realization drifted through my head, something to do with how young she was, how good she looked in any light, how light didn't make the slightest difference with her. And how old I was, and how all young people, even plain young people, had begun to look beautiful to me.

At last he stood staring at the old Reuben Golding he thought he knew so well, and neither had a word for the other that mattered.

I wasn't part of the world that cringed at such things. And with a smile, I realized that I was of that dark ilk that makes others cringe. Slowly and with great pleasure, I laughed.

By morning, I realized that I was his complete superior and I had been sadly cheated in having him for a teacher.