Quotes About Realization

The natural tendency of man is to remain unconscious.

In some ways it seems like the more intelligent i get the more aware i become of my own inherited doom

In a time when world agreement is so necessary and yet so hard to realize, Rome recalls the one period when it was almost realized, a period which (some) considered the happiest in human history."516 Robert Broughton

When you're a child the world forbears you, allows you your flights of imagination, your feelings of specialness. But sooner or later the privileges are withdrawn, and all you're left with is a stunned bitterness at the realisation that you're just the same as everybody else.

Frank Muir is affable. 'We're all fag ends in the gutter of life,' he replies cheerfully to my observation that the timing of success is quite unpredictable … 'One realises that all those things like talent, looks, skill and hard work really don't get you anywhere.

Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.

We get given our faces, thinks Audie, but we inherit our lives, our happiness and our unhappiness. Some get a lot, some get a little. Some savor every morsel and suck the marrow out of every bone. We take pleasure in the sound of rain, the smell of cut grass, the smiles of strangers, the feeling of dawn on a hot day. We learn things and realize we can never know more than we don't know. We catch love like a cold and cling to it like wreckage in a storm.

You do not understand yet what you will understand in the end .

There is nothing wrong with appearances, so long as we realize that that is what they are (this will always be a leading motif in Nietzsche's work).

I am," I said. "I'm the problem.

But all sudden things come from a deep study of conversion -- they are sudden only on the surface.

Almost all the professionals who were now set to join him were coming face to face with the fact that it appeared he knew nothing.

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De pronto me di cuenta, incómodo, de que pensaba que la sociedad en la que vivía era algo así como un medio natural —digamos una sabana o una jungla— a cuyas leyes había tenido que adaptarme.

Durante la primera parte de tu vida, no te das cuenta de tu felicidad hasta que la has perdido. Luego llega una edad, una segunda edad, en que sabes, en cuanto empiezas a vivir algo feliz, que acabarás perdiéndolo

At this moment, Paul was hungry. He would go home, it was the only right thing to do, he said to himself before he realized there was nothing to eat at home, that the shelf in the refrigerator reserved for him would be despairingly empty, and that the very expression "home" was a testament of unreasonable optimism.

Já na manhã seguinte (...) entendi que uma parte de minha vida acabava de terminar, e era provavelmente a melhor.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

God, she was a fool. What had she expected him to do? To think? Hi, you hate me, you put your head through five mirrors to make that point, so I was thinking...

He knew for certain that she belonged forever in his arms, just as he knew she didn't realize it yet.

Which jolted her to see one more thing: that they were both men. Nothing less, but also nothing more. And Clara felt a pressure that was so much a part of her she hadn't recognized its existence until that moment it suddenly dispersed.

Toark woke with a jolt from a sleep he'd never meant to have.

El Bosque tenía todo lo que uno podía desear. Hasta entonces nunca se había dado cuenta de lo mucho que lo apreciaba.

No matter how bad the news, exit the room with a smile, she would tell us. In the early days, I took her advice as gospel, but over the years I came to realize she'd been mistaken. Sometimes optimism is not called for. Sometimes, what is needed is an acknowledgment of just how bad things are, and how much worse they might get.