Quotes About Realization

What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.

Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

Married women are kept women and they are beginning to find it out.

But man does not create...he discovers.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.

Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to 'image forth'.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently as five years ago. But in the bleak light of full adulthood, which is to one's early twenties as Sunday morning is to Saturday night, he can clearly see what it really amounts to: He's broke and unemployed.

That's when the realization comes. It swims up out of her subconscious in the same way that a nightmare does. Or when you leave the house and remember half an hour later that you left a teakettle going on the stove. It's a cold clammy reality that she can't do a damn thing about.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world... Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.