Quotes About Realization

She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack

You completely turned the world about. It is like paddling along in a canoe and suddenly being capsized—except that as soon as the boat upends, you realize that you'd been paddling along upside down and never realized it because you could breathe and see. And until you take a real breath of air, see what everything looks like without the water distorting the view, you believe that the upside-down world is the way things are. But you tipped me over.

A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at himself for getting lost, until a realization allowed him to transcend his ire. How can I be lost? I've never been here before? pp 104-105

you don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away.

Thought it has certainly taken you long enough to realize what should have truly been precious to you. Not your own self-importance, nor how clever you thought you were, but the affections of those who cared for you, and that you should have cared for in return. e become truly great only when we work for others as well as ourselves. By your own light, you can only illuminate a small part of the world, but when your light is reflected and shared, it is magnified.

One never bothers to think about growing old as one is growing older. Then suddenly it is there, looming in your face.

You can't make water into bricks, you can only make it do what is in its nature to do!

It's not about the young or the old; it's about anyone who takes something from his or her imagination and makes it real. --Thom Beers, Executive Producer

When we begin to realize this, God can bless our lives. The power of the resurrected Christ is in us. Miracles, power, and

I will tell you this much; it is the moment (not the year or the month, mind you, nor even the hour, but the very second) when a man is grown up, when he sees things as they are (that is, backwards), and feels solidly himself. Do I make myself clear? No matter, it is the Shock of Maturity, and that must suffice for you.

Yesterday's panicked fears are today's sober expectations.

Matlock knew he should understand what that meant. He knew he should be able to work out what 'straight' meant when referring to a woman who was biologically male. He took a guess.

There comes a moment in life when we see ourselves as others see us. I suppose that is part of growing up, and it is not always comfortable. Eanflæd

He had collapsed in pain at his wedding, though that might have been the horror of realizing what he was marrying

And suddenly, after weeks of thinking about desertion, Sharpe realized that what he had just said was true. He did want to go back to the army, and that knowledge surprised him. The army had bored Richard Sharpe, then done its best to break his spirits. It had even flogged him, but now, standing on Seringapatam's battlements, he missed the army. For at heart, as Richard Sharpe had just discovered for himself, he was a soldier.

Pienso, llego a una conclusión, la conclusión cristaliza en una decisión, y entonces me doy cuenta de que la acción es algo aparte, algo que puede seguir a la decisión, pero no necesariamente

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realize the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

suggest four general maxims, which will prove an adequate preventive of persecution mania if their truth is sufficiently realized. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't overestimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any desire to persecute you.

It is in the moments when the mind is most active and the fewest things are forgotten that the most intense joys are experienced. This indeed is one of the best touchstones of happiness. The happiness that requires intoxication of no matter what sort is a spurious and unsatisfying kind. The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties, and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

The intoxicating delight of sudden understanding.

Your Promised Land is the place where God's personalized promises over your life become a living reality rather than a theological theory.