Quotes About Realization

Once waking into the realization that eternity is waiting in every moment, I discovered that wealth is time, not money.

This is when I became myself. The girl before this time is a shadow, like a soul who is practicing how not to become. She is the background, the hole in the fabric from which the real shape is cut.

She glanced at her watch, reminding herself who she was.

[Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their 'to do' list.

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. "THAT'S why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

It is a rude awakening, is it not, to discover that people change, or that they have other facets to their character that we did not suspect?

You just have not...oh, learned who yo are yet.

having a dream and being on the journey to fulfilling it sometimes brings more happiness than actually achieving it. We have a habit, do we not, of thinking happiness is a future state if only this and that condition can be met. And so much of life passes us by without our realizing how happy we can be in this present moment, or how nearly happy.

He was fully aware that it was already too late for simple friendship between them.

He had suffered as much as she. She closed her eyes and laid her forehead in one shaking hand. What a revolutionary thought! She had accustomed herself for so long to the idea that he was a heartless wretch. Had he just been her own very dear Robert all the time?

I have never stopped loving you, he said. I realized that as soon as I saw you again.

Oh, no, he thought with a curious pang about the heart, he had not imagined it.

He was, he realized without any real surprise, quite irrevocably in love with her. Her joy was his; her pain was his. There was no point in further denial—not to himself at least.

How foolish of her to have fallen into a dream.

She had been dazed, astounded by the discovery that she, too, had loved for some time without realizing it.

Can't you see? Have you been blind all these years? Haven't you known that it has always been you? Always?

I wish I had realized that before. But it is true. And now I may hate you with my whole heart.

She had not got over him at all, in fact, and she was disgusted with herself when forced to admit the truth.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

Standing in the shower, I feel something on the back of my leg that turns out to be my ass.

someone who knows a little more than diddly. I'm scheduled to meet with the Center's wildlife genetics staff, upstairs in the Long Speak Room, which is an amusingly apt name for a government conference room (except that it isn't—a realization that will dawn when I take note of the plaque by the door, which reads: Longs Peak Room).