Quotes About Realization

A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

You will have experienced, perhaps, that feeling of being relieved of a weight that you had not properly realized was there?

Poor Lou, I did nothing for her,' Kate suddenly thought. It is a most severe pain—the realisation that one has failed one's child, done less than one might have done; but she continued to smile bravely.

It makes you very uncomfortable to realize that your emotional attachment to something is an indulgence.

There it was, I realised suddenly, the three of us were friends.

The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her hair again, that the repeated necessity of the act is too much trouble, that she wants to do it once and be done with it, seems like the book's true epiphany. You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended into philosophical heights.

At that moment, Irish realized the man was Nathan Harris, the guy they'd seen in the hardware store. The one who'd had an issue with Randy having it all.

The things you have heard are true; we are the mothers of monsters. We would, however, like to clarify a few points. For instance, by the time we realized what Jeffrey had been up to, he was gone.

Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts.

Oh my God! I can't believe I did that!

O that you would realize that each moment is golden.

Before men can be truly wise, they must realize their dependence upon God, and be filled with His wisdom.

And ceilings - ceilings! - that had been invisible, up there, of no account, suddenly insisting upon their supreme and deadly importance.

Heck, I didn't even know my mom had dreams. How could I not have known that?

Of course I knew. It was the reason I was no longer comatose after an entire life of sleepwalking.

He shared that, from the day of Pentecost until now, no child of God has ever fully realized the power that has been put within us.

Some of the best truths for which to live were realized in the throes of death.

There's something happening here, I know it. It's right in front of my face, but I just can't see it.

She'd always thought that a broken heart sounded rather romantic. But in truth it was physical. Her whole chest ached, as if she'd been struck with a knife. With all her witless calculations about how to make a man desire her, she'd never realized that the most important thing was to make him like her. Or even love her. What a fool she was.

He walked until his heart was as dreary as the sky, until some sort of truth came to him.

She was all that he wanted, all that he had ever wanted, even though he had lost track of that truth for a while. "James

But then a pirate had slit his cousin's throat and almost killed him, and the same man had slashed Griffin's thigh. And James had realized he was still in love with his wife, and decided to return to England. There was no such realization in store for Griffin, since had known his wife for precisely one day. But he did know that a pirate with a game leg is a soon-to-be-dead pirate, which was just as important an insight.

I wouldn't have been their choice, their first choice," Stella said. The words hung in the air between them. She hadn't been his first choice, either, and they both knew it.

Insight is sudden. It is a flash of understanding. It's what we do with our insights that can take a lifetime.