Quotes About Realization

Back then, I was looking for the big love story, the charismatic stranger. I didn't learn until it was way too late, until long after my failed marriage to Johnny, that love doesn't ride into town and sweep you off your feet, but sometimes looks at you in a certain way and you realize it was there all the time, right under your nose.

I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.

What I saw transformed with a click like a shaken kaleidoscope. I stopped falling in love with her and started to like her immensely.

figure out what to do here.

She wasn't that smart after all. Susanna, of all people, should have realized how those great upheavals can crack bedrock, shift tectonic plates, transform the landscape beyond recognition.

What I didn't know then was that you can't make people different, whatever you do. They have to do it themselves.

It comes to us all. The moment when you realise that nothing but love will do.

obvious solution, and marveled that no one had

I felt confused, to some degree, by everything—but in a delayed manner, in that I seemed to be repeatedly realizing that I felt confused, instead of feeling directly confused

He started to realize his body wasn't defective; rather, his society was damaging.

I felt sort of sad that I couldn't remember the last time, before tonight, that I'd paid such close attention to the sky. It felt like that must be some kind of sign that I'd lost my innocence and grown up without even realizing it.

Most of the time Marilyn's mother remained unconscious, her breath labored and erratic. One morning before dawn, she suddenly opened her eyes and looked clearly and intently at her daughter. "You know," she whispered softly, "all my life I thought something was wrong with me." Shaking her head slightly, as if to say, "What a waste," she closed her eyes and drifted back into a coma.

I am larger and better than I thought. I did not think I held so much goodness. Walt Whitman

In the Buddhist tradition, one who has realized the fullness of compassion and lives from compassion is called a bodhisattva.

Isn't it odd that you only become clever when it's too late?

Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.

Understanding conventional truth enables the practitioner to develop the method side—compassion, concentration, and ethics—whereas understanding ultimate truth leads to the realization of the wisdom side—emptiness.

When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice?

Young people often struggle with pointless pursuits until they realize for themselves that they are pointless. And that, in fact, is the point.

Looking back on it, it's like watching a horror flick and wondering why the characters are so determined to ignore the danger signs. When a spectral voice says, GET OUT, you should do it. But in real life, you don't know that you're in a scary movie. You think your wife is being overly emotional. You quietly hope it's because she's pregnant, because a baby is what you need to lock this thing in and throw away the key.

There should be a word, I thought, for this experience when you're surprised but at the same time the moment feels completely inevitable.

Nadie es esclavo, por muy atado y encadenado que esté, hasta que admite que lo es.

I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'

Are we more fully realized when we minimize the physical part of our natures? And that, you have to agree, is a profound question.