Quotes About Realization

This realisation – the realisation of the Insignificance of the Knowledge – came to me in the form of a Revelation. What I mean by this is that I knew it to be true before I understood why or what steps had led me there.

She took a step forward, and so did the unknown woman. Suddenly realization and relief came upon her in equal measures; "It is a mirror! Oh! How foolish! How foolish! To be afraid of my own reflection!" She was so relieved she almost laughed out loud, but then she paused; it had not been foolish to be frightened, not foolish at all; there had been no mirror in that corner until now.

After enlightenment, the laundry.

You can not become successful, until you develop into the person who can."

Anyone who wasn't half-stoned on pain meds would have instantly realized what a really bad idea this plan was, but since that didn't include me, I didn't worry about it.

But that peek into his uncensored brain made it clear he too realized there was a good chance things weren't going to work out for us, that the idea of it not working out was already in his mind, and in some corner of his heart he was already preparing for it. And since I was already preparing to prepare for it too, I'm not sure why it made me so sad. But it did. It was like someone cut my lifeline.

She had shown Laura that David was less hers than she had ever thought and the pieces of him she did own were being taken.

He stood just inside the door and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened again? He had promised himself not to take anything for granted and now he couldn't recall the moment that promise had given way to the everyday. It was not likely one single moment.

Oh my god," she said out of the blue. "Can you believe it's only three-fifteen?

I suddenly remembered that I could not swim.

Funny how much I've read about this place for months—pages and pages of history. And no idea how little I knew until I came for myself.

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

Not all at once, but gradually, over the months, another revelation came to me: None of that other stuff, much as I'd loved it, was what made a marriage. Not restaurant dinners or romantic vacations. Not walks on the beach or visits to wine country in the Boxster. Not oysters and martinis or moonlight over the Bay Bridge." "This was a marriage. As uncomfortable and inconvenient and devastating as it might be to live as we did now, we inhabited this place together.

Quizás en eso consiste crecer: en darte cuenta de lo gilipollas que eras.

Cuando has visto tanto, te das cuenta de que todos los finales son el mismo repetido

Oh, my goodness gracious! I've been bamboozled! -Jason Todd

laughter emerges in the realization that all along the original was derived.

Not tears of happiness, but rather tears of that sudden sadness that comes at those rare moments of perfect joy that are fully realized at the exact instant at which they are being experienced. Such knowledge always carries in it a premonition of loss, a premonition which needs no reason or explanation.

I'd thought I had a boring life before I came to Camp Pinetree--now I was sure of it. Worse yet, I was discovering it was even more boring than I'd ever suspected!

revelations that were unfolding.

You never know what you can do," he says, "until you get it done.

Die Angst fiel zu Boden, weil Moritz sie plötzlich an sich drückte, so fest, dass sie fast zwischen seinen Armen verschwand. Der größte Fluch des Menschen besteht darin, dass er die glücklichsten Momente seines Lebens immer erst im Nachhinein erkennt.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.

Creo que hemos llegado al final. Siempre hay que saber cuándo llega ese momento y aceptarlo. ¿No lo cree así?