Quotes About Realization

When you're young the future is a mountain to climb. Once there though you realize all the beauty was in the climb itself.

Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed

it all fell into place and I simply knew, as one knows that fire is hot and sleep is sweet. It was just that sudden, that elemental, and it occurred to me then that the truth is precisely that--elemental. It is the essence of itself; it cannot be argued or winnowed down to something less than what it is.

Of course, I did not realize it at the time, but it was to be nothing like a year before I came home again. I did not know when I would see Brisbane again, but I knew that I would. Someday. And indeed I did. That is when we found the body in the chapel. But that is a tale for another time.

rose in one great flap of those enormous wings and lifted itself above my head, out of reach and beyond the horizon before I realized what was happening. It was like watching a miracle of creation, and I felt no loss at its passing away from me but only joy that I had been, for however fleeting a time, connected with it.

It was entirely possible that Lorenzo's companion that dreadful night was still at large, killing Beatrice to protect himself, eliminating her before she could eliminate him. Or her, I realised with a start. I turned feverishly through the pages again until I came to the sketches of the missing bones from Lorenzo's fossil. And I knew precisely where I had seen them before.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this acutally happens, and it's kind of both creepy and wonderful when you stop to think about it. And it makes you realize there's absolutely no way to avoid change. You can sit there and cross your arms and refuse it, but underneath you, things are still spinning away.

When I stood there, looking out the window at the raindrops and thinking of everything I lost, I forgot everything I have. When I remembered everything I have, I forgot everything I lost.

Q: When did you realize you wanted to be a w

you don't know until you know!

Anytime I was denying my inner self, I knew absolutely nothing.

What if you already are the person you wish you were but you just don't know it yet?

A man who has come to the full realization of his responsibility to men won't stick to one man. It will be foolhardy if he does that.

We all have potential for greatness in ourselves. The only thing we need to do is to find it.

The Word that will change a man must first show the man who he really is.

Life has no joy in it without accomplishment of purpose

Dreams become regrets when left in the mind, never planted in the soil of action.

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

Religion is to be realized, not read or taught.

Epiphanies awaken the soul.

It's not enough to hear or think about the truth, we must experience it for ourselves if we are to truly know it.

LEXI: I'd settled for this awful existence because I'd convinced myself it was better than being alone....But it's not.

This journey of life is about realizing our inherent wholeness. It has nothing to do with perfecting anything