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Quotes About Realization

Understand, daughter, that the only reason for your existing was as a tribute to your uncle-father. You were meant to love him. I planned to teach you how to serve him and adore him. You would be his monument and his fortress against mortality. Forgive me. As soon as you arrived I realized that you were worth far more than that.
~ Katherine Dunn
i just recently realized that women are supposed to be the inferior sex
~ Katherine Hepburn
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior.
~ Katherine Hepburn
I sometimes think that we have an idea that our song and presence in heaven will add something to God. Never! You cannot add to God. No tinge of brightness can you put upon the beauty of His character, no greater fullness of love can you give. How then can I glorify Him? God is glorified in the perfect realization on the part of His people of all the gracious purposes of His love for them.
~ G. Campbell Morgan
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
In the twinkling of an eye a veil is lifted; and you see with other eyes and hear with other ears and are given another understanding.
~ G.B. Edwards
You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
To awaken means to realize one's nothingness, that is, to realize one's complete and absolute mechanicalness, and one's complete and absolute helplessness... So long as a man is not horrified at himself, he knows nothing about himself.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
In response to my question, brother shook his head. "Then he's dead," I said. And repeated myself , something I don't often do: "Then he's dead." What is strange was that when I uttered those words, nothing happened. The state of the universe was no worse than usual. Sleeping the same old sleep, everything continued to wear down as if nothing was amiss.
~ Gaétan Soucy
A vida é como um livro, filho. E todo livro tem um fim. Não importa o quanto você goste do livro você vai chegar na última página e ele vai terminar. Nenhum livro é completo sem o fim. E quando você chega lá somente quando você lê as últimas palavras é que você vê como o livro é bom. Ele parece mais real.
~ Gabriel Bá
he realized that he had made a grave miscalculation when he had ended the friendship with Sadie. His mistake had been in thinking the world would be filled with Sadie Greens, people like her. It was not.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It occurred to Sadie: She had thought after Ichigo that she would never fail again. She had thought she had arrived. But life was always arriving.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I had thought the way I felt about Will was just a room, but it had turned out to be a mansion. He had turned out to be a mansion.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She retraced the same route she and Sam had taken just that morning when the world seemed soft-focused and filled with possibility. The path now seemed dismal and dangerous to her. And she thought to herself that it was strange how quickly the world could shift. She let her mind go to the dark place.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Retrospectively, he realized that he had made a grave miscalculation when he had ended the friendship with Sadie. His mistake had been in thinking the world would be filled with Sadie Greens, people like her. It was not.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
And to see her almost made him want to cry. It was as if she were a mathematical proof that had eluded him for many years, but all at once, with fresh, well-rested eyes, the proof had a completely obvious solution. There's Sadie, he thought. Yes.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Winning is accepting that there are some races a person cannot win.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It was as if she were a mathematical proof that had eluded him for many years, but all at once, with fresh, well-rested eyes, the proof had a completely obvious solution.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Lambiase is recently divorced. He had married his high school sweetheart, so it took him a long time to realize that she was not, in fact, a sweetheart or a very nice person at all.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it's love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
If you let true love escape you, all for the sake of your worldly fame, one day you will wake up and realize you are no better than I - a blind, bloody fool.
~ Gaelen Foley
You know what I figured out?" I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or I'm about to learn what a crappy shrink I am." (276)
~ Gail Giles
I learned that beauty exists where you least expect to find it.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
Perhaps the dull ache I'm feeling comes from letting go, the realization that some memories should be left as just that, a moment in time when the fruits of life are at their sweetest.
~ Gail Tsukiyama