Quotes About Realization

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

God's glory is not always immediate, but it is certain. He will be glorified for His holiness, for His defeat of Satan, for His righteous judgment, and for His grace to redeemed sinners (Revelation 5). This glory must have a backdrop of sin to be fully realized.

so I looked at this kid from West Texas, feelin' all cut up an' betrayed 'cause he suddenly realized the Land of the Free been fuckin' him in the ass all his life--an' I told myself, 'Shit, so that's what it's like to be the white boy. Any nigga you ask can tell you that's how America works.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!

Did you find yourself?" "What?" said my sister. "Did you find yourself?" "She found me," I said.

Don't look so surprised. You didn't think I'd spent my whole life behind this desk, did you?" And I suddenly realized that, well, I guess I had. Weren't all teachers born behind their desks, fully grown, with a red pen in their hand and ready to grade?

Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there, and when you know-you really know-that the emptiness is as much as inside you as outside you. For it falls out, that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, why, then we rack the value, then we find the virtue that possession would not show us while it was ours. That's when I knew for the first time that I really did love my sister.

I believe that our epiphanies or intuitive insights often reflect who we are, or what we are capable of doing, in unexpected ways.

Only living big will let you experience your true life and work potential

Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass!

La religión o la espiritualidad en la que crees no determina lo espiritualmente avanzado que estés en términos de conciencia. Hay cristianos que están entre los más realizados, y hay cristianos que son unos necios charlatanes. Esto es así en todas las religiones, filosofías y vías espirituales, sin excepción.

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that's just what I've gone and done.

Eventually you will come to realize that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

And that to me is something. Coming to an understanding of who you are in the midst of discovering who you aren't.

not that I was too out of breath, but that I was, as it were, too alive, living too many lives at once, as if I were breathing for many men. In retrospect, this realization seems far from cogent, simply another layer of ontological mystification, but at the time it seemed akin to revelation.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

until it was almost too late.

You've no doubt heard the saying 'knowledge is power.' I disagree. Knowledge is only powerful if you use it, if you act on it.

I knew I had to break up with Ann Rosenberg after she chose a teal dress for the prom. I had never heard of teal. Also, I was gay.

They looked at each other for a while their gazes steady, unblinking. It was the way people stare at each other not when they're in love but afterward, when they finally realize all the many horrible and beautiful things locked up within that love.

When you're growing up, it takes a long time for you to realize that there's something different about you. On one level, you know there's something strange, but on another, yourself is the only thing you ever knew.