Quotes About Realization

A man just realizing the fatal extent of his own folly was not likely to be all that rational.

When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow. This itself is an act of love.

I believe that there is only one kind of love—real love—trying to come alive in us despite our limiting assumptions, the distortions of our culture, and the habits of fear, self-condemnation, and isolation that we tend to acquire just by living a life.

And then, as we grew into young women, we realised it was not love, but marriage that was the destiny waiting for us.

Hinduism is 'not a definite dogmatic creed, but a vast, complex, but subtly unified mass of spiritual thought and realization.

I knew I couldn't live without you another moment. And I knew I loved you. Well, I knew it when you left the café, and like an idiot, I'd failed more than once to see the other half of my soul right in front of me. Never again. You're mine.

How did I look at her for three fucking years and see an assistant, not a woman? A lover? No idea. I only know I can't do it anymore.

It's often at our most broken that we realize how loved we really are.

My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you" (Job 42:5).

Recent history takes a while to set. People really don't know what just happened. They only figure it out later.

Like frogs, each thinking its own puddle was the center of the universe, we believed that God worried over us each of us. Strange that we should realize Pride is a sin yet still be willing prey to such arrogance.

I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false.

How weird is that? It's almost romantic. And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared.

Sometimes you don't something is true until you hear it for the first time.

Then one detail caught my attention. Time (of birth), 5:57 A.M. Wow! I really was born! I wasn't an alien who was dropped down into my adoptive parents' arms. I was a real baby who experienced a real birth from a real mother at a real time of day. For me, that tid-bit of information was like a meal to a starving woman.

What are you doing here? (Artemis) I wanted to thank you for what you did tonight, but as I considered that, it dawned on me that you have never once in eleven thousand years done anything for me for free. The sheer fear factor of that realization alone has made me come seeking you. So what gives? (Acheron)

Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone.

I didn't know I could do that. I mean I knew I could do that before, but I didn't know it was actually working now until you screamed. I thought I was just imagining it. And don't give me that look…sorry? (Xypher)

Dazed, Nick nodded, then looked to Caleb. "I'm such an effing idiot." "We knew that," he said drily. "We definitely didn't have to throw you into a coma for that little-known nugget.

Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. (Acheron)

I thought you'd be home by now," he said as she neared him. Then he realized how stupid that comment was since he was standing right in front of her motorcycle. Der…He might as well be wearing a sign that said I'm a moron. Please help me remember where I live. Oh yeah, it's right behind me. -Dev

And in the horror of his realization over Simone was the knowledge that he'd never really loved Satara. He'd wanted to know love so badly that he'd contorted the concept of it to fit a relationship that it had no part in. This time love had come up behind him and clubbed him on the head when he hadn't been expecting it.

She scowled at him until a light appeared in her intelligent eyes, as if she had had an epiphany. Are you an illegal alien?

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.