Quotes About Realization

Until you take time to discover yourself. You will never know the extent of your ability to create the life you want.

suddenly you discovered you had it and had had it a long time without knowing it. That was the way it was with pain.

It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed a life of its own.

You don't realize the gift you have.

At a certain time in your life, you accept the fact that lunacy comes in many forms.

Unfortunately, at a certain age, wanting something you can't be or wanting what you can't have can become a way of life.

The great gift of age is the realization that each morning is a blessing, as votive in nature as a communion wafer raised to the sky. I made a habit of letting the world go on a daily basis, but unfortunately, it didn't want to let go of me.

He had bludgeoned the Southern will to resist the military strength of the United States. He had destroyed any realistic hope of ultimate Confederate success, and the people of the South realized that the Confederate armies could not protect them. The

Ain't that funny? You fall for a guy because he's smart and then you find out he's smart.

And then at last I began to realize how terrible a thing it was, the dream that you make come true.

As he sat before the elderly Irishman in his boxcar, the moment of realization suddenly tumbled into Elefante's consciousness with startling efficiency, landing on his insides with a heaviness that felt like a blacksmith's hammer falling on an anvil.

In that moment he realized that all the experience of thirty-two years on the NYPD and all the formal police training in the world was useless when the smile of someone you suddenly care about finds the bow that wraps your heart and undoes it.

The eggshell of appearance split.

Childhood is over when you know you're gonna die.

A vet! I started laughing weakly and had to sit on the edge of the tub. A vet. Wait till they found out how appropriate that was.

I've been looking for you a long time, I just didn't know it. But now I do.

There was another thing I hadn't counted on. And that was falling in love, as fast and irrevocably as you would fall off a cliff, and realizing that loving someone might mean to simultaneously want to slug them and hold them and possibly have to watch them die.… I hadn't counted on that.

Most people come together through sexual attraction and then try to figure out if they're compatible. The sex distracts them, then they realize too late that their pieces don't fit together

You know the pop is coming, but damn if it don't always surprise you.

He gave me a warm smile, and I blinked, realizing he was cute. I'd never really had the luxury of noticing cuteness or lack thereof in guys. Mostly it was the lethal/nonlethal distinction that I went with

Father Alfred D'Souza. D'Souza had written: "For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

There comes a point in everybody's life when you realize the stakes have suddenly changed. The carefree ride of your life slams into a stone wall; all those years of merely bouncing along, life taking you where you want to go, abruptly end.

Claire had a look on her face that I had learned to recognize. You wouldn't call it smugness or self-importance; Claire didn't run that way. It was more of a twinkle that read, I found something. Or more like, Sometimes I even amaze myself.

But I was definitely starting to see where his nickname came from.