Quotes About Realization

One grows old unknowingly. One accepts the passing of years as a phenomenon that has little bearing on one's personality. And then, quite suddenly, one comes to the realisation that one's contemporaries are growing a little old, falling off a little. One realises that one's hair is white.

To reach a higher level of being, you must assume a higher concept of yourself.

I will be" is a confession that "I am not " The Father's will is always "I AM." Until you realize that YOU are the Father (there is only one I AM and your infinite self is that I AM), your will is always "I will be.

You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe it is the only reason you do not see it.

To desire a state is to have it.

Being is one thing; becoming aware of it is a point of arrival by an awakened consciousness and this involves a journey.

And I said well luckily I was mature and old enough to take this success at my age. It was bullshit.

My father would say 'I think the trouble is that they don't have the ability to see just what it is they are doing.' I would say 'Is that difficult?' My father would laugh and say 'Yes, it's difficult.

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

Even if I thought he as perfect for her. She turned to face him. What were we thinking? We weren't, he said. We were in love.

It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

When I was seventeen, my life changed forever . . .

And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock. Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.

You want to know what I was thinking?...I was thinking that I wished you'd been with me the last couple of days. I mean, I enjoyed getting to know everyone better. We ate lunch together, and the dinner last night was a lot of fun, but it just felt like something was wrong, like I was missing something. It wasn't until I saw you walking up the beach that I realized it was you.

Sometimes it saddened her to think that she'd never experience that kind of feeling again, but then life had a way of stamping out that intensity of passion; she'd learned all too well that love wasn't always enough.

I thought i saw something inside you ,something good... but i was very wrong

Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life?

because it was then, as he held her in his unwavering gaze, that she knew she was in love with him as well.

he didn't think he had a problem. Because he didn't become mean or violent, he thought he didn't have a problem. Because it was usually only beer, it couldn't possibly be a problem. But it was a problem, because he'd gradually become the kind of man she couldn't have imagined marrying. She couldn't count the number of times that she'd cried about it.

There is something terrible in the moments after waking up, when the subconscious knows that something terrible has happened but before all the memories flash back in their entirety

It was any combination of a thousand things, she told herself, but it wasn't love. And

It wasn't as if a light had suddenly blinked on; it was more like a sunrise, where the sky grows lighter and lighter, almost imperceptibly, before you realized it was morning.