Quotes About Realization

Everything has changed; it's just that we can't see it.

Life sometimes separates people so that they may realize how much they mean to each other.

And the boy sat there by the well for a long time, remembering that one day in Tarifa the levanter had brought to him the perfume of that woman, and realizing that he had loved her before he even knew she existed. He knew that his love for her would enable him to discover every treasure in the world.

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.

When O-lan saw what he had done she burst out in terror, "You have cut off your life!

No me digas nada porque está todo claro. ¿Te fijas cariño que a mí también me falló el atentando.

No me digas nada porque está todo claro. ¿Te fijas cariño que a mí también me falló el

Wait a minute,' I countered. 'Didn't you just tell me about all the strong women role models in your family, about how you were loud and have a big personality and didn't take shit?' 'I know,' she said. 'I think I didn't realize...' She paused, trying to reconcile the contradiction. 'I guess no one ever told me that the strong female image also applies to sex.

Everything is fresh, the essence of realization.

The whole journey of renunciation, or starting to say yes to life, is first of all realizing that you've come up against your edge, that everything in you is saying no, and then at that point, softening. This is yet another opportunity to develop loving-kindness of yourself, which results in playfulness--learning to play like a raven in the wind.

Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper, realizing that it's a passing memory, and moving closer to all those fears and all those edgy feelings that maybe you're not okay . Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine. We are walking, talking paradoxes.

Beginning to realize how precious life is becomes one of your most powerful tools.

Renunciation is realizing that nostalgia for samsara4 is full of shit.

strengthening habitual patterns of suffering. We begin to see this more and more clearly, and we begin to realize that we can do something different.

Trying to get lasting security teaches us a lot, because if we never try to do it, we never notice that it can't be done. Turning our minds toward the dharma speeds up the process of discovery. At every turn we realize once again that it's completely hopeless—we can't get any ground under our feet. The difference between theism

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form.

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

Every discussion with a girl is an argument, and when you think you are right suddenly you realize that your trapped.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.