Quotes About Realization

Only when you understand common sense will you be able to truly understand how to take care of practical matters.

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.

I soon realized that self-denial was like self-immolation. It was a state of stasis that relieved one of the responsibility to change things.

Listen. Sarah wore a black wig that could have easily been mistaken for your own hair. You told me she said the rapist went wild after he pulled off the wig. Of course he'd become unglued. At that point he realized that he had the wrong woman.

on in the SE. He saw his car and winced. He turned

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

We had always known that ours is a small country and that America is very big. But even as a seven-year-old, I was surprised that so many Americans has never noticed us on the map. Perhaps it's like driving a Yugo and realizing that the eighteen-wheeler can's see you.

to deny someone an education is not just a crime but a sin, because you are denying that person the opportunity to realize who he or she is meant to be.

She was my mother. Never before this had I looked at her and thought of her as someone separate, as someone else. Now, so near to her that I could smell the subtle scent of her perfume and see the clear, faint texture of her skin, I realized for the first time that I was looking at another human being who was complete within herself. She was my mother, but she was more than just a loving and convenient extension of me and my needs.

I was miserable. I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child too. I hadn't known that before. I thought I was just short.

All things are possible here and now. I now attain the seemingly unattainable.

God's work is finished now and must manifest.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

At the most embryonic state, the tendency toward the fullness of actualization is already latent.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

He had realised that it was Clara he loved, and that he loved her in many different ways. (Because there are even more ways of loving than there are ways of being happy, but it would take another book to explain them all.)

In an instant he saw the delusion of his five hundred years. He was not looking into a box; he was looking out of one. All these centuries his mind, his body, his world had been a box of horrors. He took one last breath, then pushed open the lid of his prison and escaped.

Mosca had been so busy working the oars of her little plan that she had failed to see the iceberg upon which it was doomed to founder. And now here it was in front of her, a towering glacial mountain of selfishness, and she could not understand how she could have missed it. How vast was it? How far beneath the surface did it go?

Then why couldn't Father see that?" not-Triss felt despair and hurt welling up inside her again, and it was all she could do to stop her teeth from sharpening. "Why couldn't Mother see it?" "Because they're stupid," growled Pen, rubbing at her nose with her sleeve. "They can't tell when real Triss is fake-crying, so of course they can't tell when fake Triss is real-crying.

We frequently miss opportunities because we aren't aware of them.

He sido una tonta. Estaba tan empeñada en buscar a lo lejos que había olvidado que la felicidad puede estar muy cerca.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

Billy Sometimes I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.

It wasn't long after I joined the Celtics. The team was going through drills in training camp, and it didn't seem like everyone was going all-out. And then we started playing exhibition games, and I was able to get my shots, make my cuts, things like that. When the season started, the game slowed down for me. I was able to think my way around the court and see plays develop before they actually happened. That's when I realized I could play at a high level and be successful.