Quotes About Realization

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

Everyone has two lives. A second one begins when you realize you only have one…. Hug each other every day. Please know I am OK. Live your lives to the fullest and pray to be happy.

I woke up one morning and realized that someone had broken in the night before, and replaced everything in my apartment with an exact replica. I got my roommate and showed him. I said, "Look at this, everything's been replaced with an exact replica!" He said, "Do I know you?"

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age.

What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

All of those days that came and went - I didn't realize those were life.

It was a sacrifice. At that moment, she realized that Valraven too was a sacrifice. Not one of blood, but of something else, perhaps spirit. He had been sacrificed to Madragore.

She'd taken her environment so much for granted, unaware that things inevitably change, and so they did.

Pharinet realized she had underestimated Ellony. The words hung unspoken between them. There was no other time they could be voiced. Out here, isolated from the life they knew, it was possible to speak the truth.

Not only did failure oppress me, but I could no longer deny the pattern revealing itself before me.

The world seemed to change before my eyes. All the huts looked empty and sad, the dampness stung like acid. I think I knew then, in that brief instant, that my destiny had been set. Already the land around me had acknowledged my farewell.

I think certain truths in our lives yearn to be uncovered, regardless of circumstances.

Owen saw a male shape come into the hall behind Barbara, shadowy. It did not sound like Louis, neither did the outline look like him. But as he came towards the door, Owen realised this was Daniel's father, but changed almost beyond recognition. Othman had done this. He glanced at Barbara. Both of them were Othman's now.

The moment when he realised he was consciousness without form occurred when Ays tried to reach out towards the shrouded face. He had nothing to reach out with, other than pure desire.

I was married off without realizing what that entailed, but found myself in a a fairy tale. This land is beautiful, as if I dreamed it up in my head.

I realised I was witnessing the unprecedented sight of my father being teased.

At last! She would see the face of Resenence Jeopardy. She would look into his eyes, and they would be open for her. Something momentous would happen, the reason for her journey, her commitment to the idea of an unknown man would be revealed to her.

Emma realised how beautiful Daniel had become. In Little Moor, she'd seen him as a gawky boy, but now his svelte body was that of a very attractive young man.

Life moved so quickly. You didn't realize it until you paused to reflect.

The clues were there all along, but we'd denied our past and shut ourselves away from the truth.

Pharinet was nineteen years old, alone and in love. Once Valraven had left her world, she realized this forbidden feeling had been within her for many years, disguised as something else. She was appalled: at herself and the strength of the emotion. This was the sea made manifest in her body, churning and heaving.

The person you were still lives inside you. You must find him.

The song changed, became more conventional, and the words burned into Khaster's mind. Could they possibly be addressed to him? The song was about the stupidity and waste of self-hatred, about realizing the wonder of life, becoming free from fear and misery.

The significance of what happened in that room was not revealed to me for a long, long time.