Quotes About Realization

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

the phase of daring escapades, of raids and rallies, gave way to the inevitable grimmer phase when the implications of the war began to strike home to everybody.

I think I figured out a thing." "Is it a good thing, or a bad thing?" "Definitely one of the two,

What you are to be, you are now becoming. —RUSSEL LESTER SNYDER, artist

I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have

If you're confused about life, you're not alone. There are almost seven billion of us. This isn't a problem, of course, once you realize that life is neither a problem to be solved nor a game to be won. If you are too intent on making the pieces of a nonexistent puzzle fit, you miss out on all the real fun. The heaviness of success-chasing can be replaced with a serendipitous lightness when you recognize that the only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.

I used to resent obstacles along the path, thinking, 'If only that hadn't happened life would be so good.' Then I suddenly realized, life is the obstacles. There is no underlying path." Janna Levin TW/IG: @jannalevin

Those moments show me that this whole thing is bigger than me. It's the realization that there is a "will to pleasure," a "will to power" and, in the words of Viktor Frankl, a "will to meaning." You won't take a bullet for pleasure or power, but you will for meaning.

The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it.

something like, "You're totally right. I never thought about that.

That cliché you ignored like a throwaway fortune cookie? Suddenly it makes sense and moves mountains

Si te remontas veinte o veinticinco años, me habría gustado saber que no había ninguna necesidad de esperar. Fui a la universidad. Fui a la facultad de Derecho. Trabajé en el mundo de la abogacía y de la banca, aunque no durante una cantidad terrible de tiempo. Pero hasta que inicié PayPal no me di cuenta por completo de que no tienes que esperar para emprender algo.

Descubres tu "sueño" (u objetivo en la vida) a medida que recorres el camino,

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition.

I made it worse. I lay there for months and months, obsessing over all the places I'd never go, and I gradually realized that many of the ones I most wanted to see were places I'd never heard of. That was when I began seeing my countries." "How

Only when you accept the bad news of the gospel does the good news make any sense. The grace, restoration, reconciliation, forgiveness, mercy, patience, power, healing, and hope of the gospel are for sinners. They are only meaningful to you if you admit that you have the disease and realize that it is terminal.

You just noticed? You're slow...

It was like someone had turned a knob a hair to the right ... and the radio station clicked in so loud and clear it almost knocked her over .

11. Why did seeing my name written out by her make me feel like that was the first time I'd ever seen my name in my whole life?

The very act of enunciating the most pessimistic system attests to a fundamental optimism and hope for progress beyond the status quo. Though the good may be impossible to realize, it is also impossible to abandon entirely. The production of knowledge itself points, often despite itself, toward a better future.

His answer caught me by surprise. I'd never realized there was an age limit for spankings. This was the best news I'd heard in a long time.

Real fear, he now knew, took its power not from what could happen but what you realize will happen.

Somehow in all of this we are still capable of finding some illumination, some truth, some place where we step out of ourselves, where we are ecstatic, where we have an ecstatic, visionary realization.