Quotes About Realization

I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

He wakes up and thinks, I'm alive. This simple fact fills him with a sense of accomplishment. He didn't die in his sleep.

When you're younger you just take it as a given that things will fall into place on their own. Relationships, family, careers, the whole deal. They might not come as you picture them, but they come in some form. You just never figure that they might not come at all. And then you hit thirty and...shit! You suddenly realize that they're not necessarily coming and you panic.

It occurs to me, just before I pass out, that maybe I was miserable before, but things were going too well for me to notice it.

It is instead the realization that the tragic irrationalities of life must be counterbalanced by an equally irrational commitment to the essential goodness of Being.

You're not everything you could be, and you know it.

Realization is dawning. Instead of playing the tyrant, therefore, you are paying attention. You are telling the truth, instead of manipulating the world.

My dream placed me at the centre of Being itself, and there was no escape. It took me months to understand what this meant. During this time, I came to a more complete, personal realization of what the great stories of the past continually insist upon: the centre is occupied by the individual.

The young man had come to realize that every place he might find himself in had more potential than he might first see (particularly when his vision was impaired by the resentment and cynicism he felt from being near the bottom).

An idea has an aim. It wants something. It posits a value structure. An idea believes that what it is aiming for is better than what it has now. It reduces the world to those things that aid or impede its realization, and it reduces everything else to irrelevance. An idea defines figure against ground. An idea is a personality, not a fact.

You don't understand anything. You didn't even know that you were blind.

That was so not fair. My life was perfectly fine until suddenly I had this live-in boyfriend who wanted to interact with me, and I realized that I was almost always high.

Tot allò. L'Eduard Calvo va adonar-se que era un eufemisme estrany.

la vida en general es esí: una larguísima cadena de proyectos frustrados interrumpida, muy de vez en cuando, por un proyecto que llega a realizarse

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

One is in love when one realizes that the other person is unique.

Little by little I came to realize the strange irony of events. I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library. Others think of a garden or of a palace. There I was, the center, in a way, of nine hundred thousand books in various languages, but I found I could barely make out the title pages and the spines.

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

AÅŸk?n yeryüzünün en önemli ÅŸeyi olduÄŸunu keÅŸfettim.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Libre no es para Hegel quien hace lo que quiere, sino quien hace lo que debe hacer para realizar su esencia. La libertad de la historia no es, por tanto, la mera contingencia, el azar, o el acaso; la libertad de la historia es cumplimiento inexorable del fin, sumisión a sí mismo.

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

Ángel de la jiribilla, ruega por nosotros. Y sonríe. Obliga a que suceda. Enseña una de tus alas, lee: Realízate, cúmplete, sé anterior a la muerte. Repite: Lo imposible al actuar sobre lo posible, engendra un posible en la infinidad. Ya la imagen ha creado una causalidad, es el alba de la era poética entre nosotros. Ahora ya sabemos que la única certeza se engendra en lo que nos rebasa.