Quotes About Realization

ajenos a que un día descubrimos que la vida era algo más que todo eso que hacemos por costumbre.

el peor de todos los tipos es el llanto por frustración; cuando lloras porque no puedes más, aunque no tengas un motivo aparente. Cuando pasas mucho tiempo siendo fuerte o creyendo que lo eres, creando un muro a tu alrededor que sirva de fortaleza, y de pronto, cuando menos lo esperas, te das cuenta de que no puedes cambiar las cosas.

La lección que Anita saca de la discusión con su marido es bien clara: la justicia es un lujo al alcance de muy pocos.

There are two great days in a person's life—the day we were born and the day we discover why." —William Barclay

You take it for granted that it's always going to be that way; then without warning, it's gone. In an instant, all you're left with are the things you wanted to say, the hopes and dreams you'll never realize, a hole where your heart used to be.

At the last stages of the journey, there's no journey at all.

C'est pour ça que je ne le vis pas venir et c'est pour ça que je ne distinguai pas le moment juste où sa musique commença ; mais, tout d'un coup, elle sauta hors de la pluie et je sus qu'il était là.

The answer was no longer of any concern, only its attendant truth, which she'd figured out years ago and had never once questioned: her mother loathed her, and probably always had. What was she supposed to do with such information? Exactly.

Her fault had been in trying to keep it as tight as a mistress might. All a wife needed was a little more subtlety, and it had taken her two years of doubts and nightmares to realize this. Let him wander away from her, let him dally with others--it would but be to compare them with his incomparable queen.

Things changed. Things that defined your life altered and shifted while you weren't paying attention. Sometimes you didn't even notice until you missed them.

It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

The news took a moment to sink in, probably because there was no bottom for it to alight upon.

it was not whim or wildness which made me go, but a sudden clear realization that tho you were the first man of importance to me, you could not be the last. — Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1963 (age 21)

If there's one good thing about terror, Lydia now understands, it's that it's more immediate than grief.

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

This is exactly who I was meant to be.

Depression is fear with hope removed. It arises as we discover that something we thought could be ours will never be ours. Unhappiness is when we worry about not having something, depression is when we realize we'll never have it, and freedom is when we realize that nothing is ours and nothing can be ours, so that, in effect, nothing isn't ours.

What you were always longing for is already staring you in the face and doesn't look anything like you expected it to.

it turns the shower scene was a lot harder to film than i expected

And some more shocking news: your ship's not coming—it's already here. Docked and waiting. You already have the money. You already have the time. You already have the skill, the confidence. You already have everything you need to achieve everything you want.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.

Some things came to you late, but late was better than never.

se dijo con tristeza; el muerto era un yo descalzo

Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice.