Quotes About Realization

In desperation we may agree to pay any price. Only later do we learn the true cost. —MENTAT PEARTEN, new Lampadas school archives

Those who nourish themselves with hatred seldom realize they are starving. —Zensunni warning

Most of the time, we don't even realize we've live through something worth commemorating until long after it's already ended.

The world is a terrifying place, more than I ever realized. But if I had my whole life to do over again, that's literally the only thing I'd change. I'd stop being so afraid of other people.

As they emerge, the creatures beneath those fragile shells begin to understand that they possess more agency than they ever dreamed.

Because I'm not a bad guy, Nico. Gert couldn't have loved me if I was. I realize that now.

No, I realize Hektor was just another rando bit player on whatever bullshit 'hero's journey' you think you've been on. But when this is over, you'll finally realize that you're not even the star of your own story. You're a goddam black hole.

Richard hung up, tears welling up in his eyes. But they were a different kind of tears. They brought with them an overwhelming sense of joy. That's when he realized joy happens when you fit in with your life, when you fit in so harmoniously that whatever you are doing becomes your joy.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

The neuroscientist Antonio Damasio says such feelings are our wake-up to a problem "that the body has already begun to solve." The point is: We may already have entered the transition before our mind even realizes it. Here

physicists abandoned their belief in a Newtonian, material universe because they had come to realize that the universe is not made of matter suspended in empty space but energy.

I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized because I realized that there was a science-based path that would take me from my job as a perennial "victim" to my new position as "co-creator" of my destiny. (Prologue, xv)

Whoever realizes the Void* is filled with life and power and the love of all beings'.

It was the first time I'd realised that the giant in 'Jack and the Beanstalk' was an Afrikaner.

Isn't it marvelous to discover that you're the one you've been waiting for? That you are your own freedom?

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.

The basic realization that other people can't possibly be your problem, that it's your thoughts about them that are the problem—this realization is huge. This one insight will shake your whole world, from top to bottom

Each instant was different and new and unrepeatable. That was the very nature of time, ceaselessly realizing itself, in every life.

Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.

It's like now that I'm looking for inequality, I'm seeing it everywhere, categorizing a thousand great and small unfairnesses everywhere I go. Why didn't I really see this before?

Merry sighed. "Once again, Andrew, you've opened my eyes. To what, I'm not sure.

And now it is as we wanted it.