Quotes About Realization

Guess what, Satsuki! I realized something wonderful! I don't have to be a teacher to light the way for others. I can make my dream come true in other ways!! And for that, I need you. It has to be you. I love you. Without you... I can't even smile.

I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is enlightmentment

What is now proved was only once imagined.

No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, it turns out. Who knew?

The template: On the verge of a Stasis = Death moment, a flawed protagonist Breaks into Two; but when the Midpoint happens, he/she must learn the Theme Stated, before All Is Lost.

I traced the cord back to the wall, no wonder it was never plugged in at all.

Along the way my loyalties had shifted without my even realizing it.

Now Early realized that a light had gone out, and

Unfortunately, many people have to pass through a major crisis to recognize the choice they have.

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you do that through your own thinking.

One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

Nawet nie domy?la?am si?, jak g??boka jest przepa??, w któr? spadamy, dopóki nie zobaczy?am takiego dna.

Suddenly I realized that mosquitoes were clustering on my neck and arms. Even before I came up here, other boys were complaining about them. How could I not realize we must be near land? So, this is the first sign of Bangkok — mosquitoes, clouds of them. If they were organized, they could carry us to shore one by one.

We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.

She stepped aside to let him pass. She followed him to the car and watched him get laboriously into the front seat. As she welcomed him silently to the human race, the stab of discovery made her tremble a little. Somebody walked over my grave, she thought, probably Jem on some idiotic errand.

I scurried to my room and went to bed. Uncle Jack was a prince of a fellow not to let me down. But I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said.

she may have discovered that all her life she had been with a visual defect which had gone unnoticed and neglected by herself and by those closest to her: she was born color blind.

Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling...[yet] the civilization and the morals of the Americans fall far below their own principles.

When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.