Quotes About Realization

What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.

and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

Everything in my life has been leading up to this," he whispered. "Everything that's happened, everything I've done has been worth it because it's brought me here.

Become aware that there are no accidents in our intelligent universe. Realize that everything that shows up in your life has something to teach you. Appreciate everyone and everything in your life.

There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.

So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

I have seen life's purpose, and now it is my own.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

I came to success very late in life.

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life . . . and someone who realizes that it can't possibly be enough.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

I think the biggest shift has been in realizing how much more we are creating our life than we realize. That was sort of the epiphany to me.

I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.

If you fully awaken, you will not know yourself. Understand this, and you will understand all.

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

Lastly, experiencers are not motivated to believe in the "truth of their experiences. Often they prefer to believe that they have had some sort of bad dream, and become intensely distressed when they realize in the interview that they were not asleep when the experience began.

We never, ever believe the truth until it's too late.