Quotes About Realization

It had felt liberating to acknowledge this to himself and others, to shed his painful sense of the obligation to be somehow remarkable; but it left him with the unanswered question of what to do with his life, and simultaneously the realization that working on the novel endlessly had been a way to avoid facing that question.

So few people know what they're capable of.

There was a feeling in me like rising water. It broke over me, finally, leaving behind the thing I knew, but didn't know. Nazareth had never been my home. Jesus had been my home.

That's when I got true religion. I didn't know to call it religion back then, didn't know Amen from what-when, I just knew something came into me that made me feel the water belonged to me. I would say, that's my water out there.

It almost bereaves me to think of unrealized potentials dying inside, the small miscarriages of self. I

and I suppose now that was part of the problem—my chronic inability to astonish myself.

couldn't have explained then how the oak tree lives inside the acorn or how I suddenly realized that in the same enigmatic way something lived inside of me—the woman I would become—but it seemed I knew at once who she was.

And despite all that Jesus had just said, all his prevarication and provisos, the most curious feeling came over me, that I was always meant to arrive at this moment.

Once you wake up, can you wake up any more?

What if we were the instigators of his doubt, what if he was beginning to realize that everything he had known thus far was a lie, and that we were the ones who held the key to truth? We agreed that we would never sit with him again, not even if he asked. "A dinner with us might get him killed," Katie said. I wanted to dismiss the comment as the melodrama of a twenty-three-year-old, but I knew it wasn't that. In North Korea, such a consequence was entirely possible.

Do people ever realize how precious life is? I know I never did before. There was always time. There was always a future.

Once you're old enough to recognize a hole in yourself it's too late for the hole to be filled.

Knowledge clinched or confirmed always feels like a coin falling into the right slot, a ball landing in a basket, a peg knocked into its proper hole.

So many people fail to realise that the greatest journey one can ever take is the journey to the very centre of one's being.

I don't want to hurt you, he said. Too late.

Eres un hombre, lamento decírtelo. Y es una pena que no haya ningún anciano de mal aliento, porque sería mejor que tener que casarme contigo. No puedo creer cómo he sido tan estúpida de llegar a tomarte cariño. Pero puedes estar seguro de que no volveré a cometer el mismo error. En cuanto encuentre la forma de dejar de quererte, te aseguro que voy a hacerlo.

She breathed, she walked through her house and knew that nothing was ever going to be the same again.

What Duncan didn't realize was that under that tough exterior was a really nice guy, which he wouldn't want to hear anyway. Guys hated to be called nice. But he was. She couldn't turn around without tripping over the proof.

Kurz hatte sie darüber nachgedacht, in eine größere Stadt zu ziehen, dann aber erkannt, dass sie im Grunde ihres Herzens ein Kleinstadtmädchen war.

healing, like life, was a journey, not a destination, then she would keep moving forward. And one day, she would realize the hole in her heart had filled in just enough to be survivable.

You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find out pretty quick you were looking at the wrong road.

We understand what we want to understand.

There does come a point when you have to acknowledge you're no longer postponing something and you really have made a choice.

I always took equal justice for granted. It was kind of a shock to realize how much depends on access to money and power.