Quotes About Realization

In that expression, Dust glimpsed the woman she had not been, the woman whose body she now inhabited.

Pussycat. Isn't it time thou didst admit where thou dost belong?

She had anticipated that the cultural disconnect would be vast, and she was only just coming to understand how vast it might be.

I felt as if I had been navigating a vast space by touch alone, groping in the darkness, and suddenly I could see.

I was starting to realizee that we, all of us-Synarche, pirates, Jothari, even the Ativahikas-were living in the ruins of the Koregoi's enormous and shadowy house.

You've got a key inside you, and you don't even know it.

Poetry, he realized, in watching Will's face. A furious brightness sparked in Kit's breast, equal parts pride and fury. Even now, he comes back with poetry.

It struck Seeker that she did not know the man her own son had become.

When you realize you've been one of the biggest barriers to your own change and you take full responsibility, you put yourself in a place of power.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

You always take for granted what you have until it is gone. And then you realize how much value it truly held in your life.

It was the truth, but that made it no more palatable.

It's one thing to have a goal, but it's quite another thing to actually accept the challenge, develop a strategy to press for the goal, make the sacrifices, pay the price to move forward, and blessing of blessing, to realize some part of it.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.

there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.

Her strong, warm clasp did not falter, but her panic grew. An abyss seemed opening at her feet too, as for the first time in her life she realized the meaning of death. However strong religious faith may be, death remains an abyss that swallows the familiar companion of everyday as though he had never been. It is the most awful fact of human life, and at the moment Marianne knew it not only with her mind but for the first time with her panic-stricken soul as well.

But some feelings take a long time, they sort of grow behind your back. You turn around thirty years later and there they are.

You never realise what loneliness is until it creeps up on you - like a disease, it is, something that happens to you gradually.

Before we know it, its all going to be over so fast. Too fast for us to even realize what was..

It's sad to say, but I think she's right for you. More right than I would have ever been.

Siamo abituati a pensare che lo shock coincida con la scoperta di qualcosa che non ci aspettavamo, mentre spesso coincide con il venire a galla di certe nostre paure profonde.

Ich habe festgestellt, dass es gefährlich ist, sich an Dinge zu gewöhnen.' 'Gilt das für alles?' 'Ja, für alles. Man nimmt, was immer es ist, einfach nicht mehr wahr, und, schlimmer noch, man hat die Illusion, etwas geschafft zu haben.