Quotes About Realization

You make me think I might discover parts of myself I doona know exist.

You can tell them to run all you want but there aren't a lot of people that will, until they believe they're in major danger—which is usually too late. They gape like cows, and if you don't know it, cows gape a lot.

He breaks off, and I gasp as, abruptly, what we're seeing makes perfect sense.

When a heart realized it loved was also, paradoxically, when a heart learned to fear most deeply.

Wasn't that the way life always worked? To learn a hard truth too late- was that better than never learnig it at all? Possible not. At least, if one never discovered what one wanted, one could never miss not having it.

He looks me to pieces … I realize now that I have been glimpsed and corner-of-the-eyed before, by the Chief and my sister and the yawning tourists. But I have never actually been looked at. Not like this.

Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.

Time is a funny thing. It can take some people a whole lifetime before they realize they've been playing tug-of-war all by themselves.

Learning who you are and changing aren't always the same thing, you know. Sometimes we think we've changed, but all we've done is grow into the person we were always meant to be.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.

while I felt that the Marxist attitude towards their theory was not at all admirable but was typically dogmatic and had all these properties which the Marxists usually said were characteristic of the churches. So I realized fairly early that Marxism was more of a church than of a science.

Democracy and freedom do not guarantee the millennium. No, we do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

I feel as if I'm waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.

I was given my power by someone much like me," said Tadis. "It is the power to create, but with this came the obligation to teach. I shall give you the power to create, Baz, just as I have. But never forget that the real power is that which we all have sleeping in our souls. It is the power to remove illusions, to see and feel who we really are. It is the power to love and forgive.

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

All this, grassy paddock, cows, trees - he had thought it was Nature. But now he could see that that was ignorance, or lack of imagination. It was not Nature . It was actually property.

It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human.

The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

Regenerative industrial design can only be fully realised if it is underpinned by regenerative economic design.

like, "I happened to notice when I put these together that . 

There were strange noises in the room, great bellowing sobs that did not sound like anything human. They bounced off the wals, echoing in her ears. Stop! she wanted to cry at the person who was making the noise. Then she realised that it was her.

Because you suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive.