Quotes About Realization

I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. Of the millions, I, too, was potentially everything at birth. I, too, was stunted, narrowed, warped, by my environment, my outcroppings of heredity. I, too, will find a set of beliefs, of standards to live by, yet the very satisfaction of finding them will be marred by the fact that I have reached the ultimate in shallow, two-dimensional living — a set of values.

I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.

I am aware, sure, I am aware. Catastrophically aware.

I don't really know,' I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true. It sounded true, and I recognized it, the way you recognize some nondescript person that's been hanging around your door for ages and then suddenly comes up and introduces himself as your real father and looks exactly like you, so you know he really is your father, and the person you thought all your life was your father is a sham.

Then the sunlight burst into the room through the venetian blinds; I breathed hard, filling my lungs with air. I could see my feet, my arms; there I was. I tried hard to get back in my body again Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it was such a long way to my feet.

I don't really know, I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was

The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

I counted the letters. There were exactly a hundred of them. I thought this must be important.

It's happening,' I thought. 'It's happening. If I just lie here and do nothing it will happen.

I am at Smith because I wanted it and worked for it. I am going to be a Guest Editor on Mlle in June because I wanted it and worked for it. I am being published in Harper's because I wanted it and worked for it. Luckily I could translate wish to reality by the work.

I read through the phone book once, never mind when, and it satisfied a deep need in me to realize how many people aren't called Smith. Anyhow

It is essential you recognize how your old ways of thinking and acting have gotten you exactly where you are right now.

first element of change is awareness.

LAVINIA: Oh Edward! The point is, that since I've been away I see that I've taken you much too seriously. And now I can see how absurd you are. EDWARD: That is a very serious conclusion to have arrived at in...how many?...thirty-two hours.

We had the experience but missed the meaning, an approach to the meaning restores the experience

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

The morning comes to consciousness

No one society and no one age of it realises all the values of civilisation. Not all of these values may be compatible with each other: what is at least as certain is that in realising some we lose the appreciation of others.

But I deceived myself. It takes so many years To learn that one is dead!

We had the experience but missed the meaning.

That sudden comprehension of the death of hope

When I know, I know that in some way I shall find That I have always known it. And that will be better.