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Quotes About Realization

The best way to make your own dreams come true is to wake up
~ Paul Valery
La meilleure façon de réaliser ses rêves est de se réveiller. The best way of making your dreams come true, is to wake up.
~ Paul Valery
These may be good people, but now I realize they work in a broken system
~ Unknown
I'm in love with that girl," she said out loud in amazement, because she knew that this was a life-changing thing and life-changing things should be said aloud, should have a moment in time, and a place in the air, some molecular structure to make them real. I'm in love with that girl, she heard as it reverberated inside her head. And it was truth, she realised, as things are which you don't think, but discover have always existed.
~ Unknown
I've just begin to realize that the capacity to be interested is a luxury, you know? It gets handed down like property.
~ Paula Fox
She wouldn't have seen any of the dinginess, because no one ever does until they're on he outside of a place, looking in.
~ Paula McLain
She wouldn't have seen any of the dinginess, because no one ever does until they're on the outside of a place, looking in.
~ Paula McLain
My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.
~ Paulina Porizkova
I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.
~ Paullina Simons
I found my true love on the banks of the river Kama," whispered Alexander, staring at her. "I found my true love on Ulitsa Saltykov-Schedrin, while I sat on a bench eating ice cream." "You didn't find me. You weren't even looking for me. I found you." Long pause. "Alexander, were you…looking for me?" "All my life.
~ Paullina Simons
People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
~ Pearl Bailey
If I saw myself erewhile Prisoned, bound, kept out of sight, 'Twas that never on my mind Dawned the truth; but now I know Who I am — a mingled show Of the man and beast combined.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
I was younger, smarter, better educated than she, and I began to realize that she was afraid of me and the truths I told. By the
~ Unknown
I think that to achieve true adulthood is to understand the simplicity of things.
~ Peggy Noonan
No matter the origin, it's you who notices an idea and gives it weight; the perception is always happening in you.
~ Penney Peirce
At last you realise that a man is not an equal, but an alien force, bent on destruction when he is aroused to anger.
~ Penny Jordan
In that moment, she knew that whether or not it was too soon, she loved him. Now and forever.
~ Unknown
I'm the son of Yancy and Nita Allen, but more importantly, I'm a child of God. I realized that none of the rest of it was that important. Most days, that's enough. Sometimes I still fall into that trap of feeling sorry for myself, but it doesn't last long.
~ Unknown
I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore nothing really to be scared of, but the dying itself I could comprehend, the very instant when you know that now comes what you have always feared, and you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.
~ Per Petterson
At eighteen I realized I was eighteen and not so smart, or special and that might have been the only way that I was in fact special. I found my ideas poorly formed and repugnant, my self awkward, and, more or less, for lack of a better word, geeky. In fact my brother, second year medical student that he was, revisited his childhood and, when he passed in the hallway, muttered, "Geek." "It's not my fault," I said.
~ Percival Everett
Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.
~ Perry Brass
Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.
~ Perry Brass
But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.
~ Perry Moore
The revelation can change your situation.
~ Unknown