Quotes About Realization

After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find.

I had a dream that I was being drowned in a flood and I realized it was a flood of people.

When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought of it before, but that's how things are.

It was a long time before I came to the realization that it is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself. Even the Son of God had to learn obedience by the things that He suffered . . . And His reward was desolation, crucifixion.

So Rhun had arrived at the last frontier of belief, and fallen, or emerged, or soared into the region where the soul realises that pain is of no account, that to be within the secret of God is more than well being, and past the power of the tongue to utter. To embrace the decree of pain is to translate it, to shed it like a rain of blessing on others who have not yet understood.

Then, at just about two o'clock, they saw where they were.

They became aware of it suddenly just after four o'clock

God is the unlimited conceptual realization of the absolute wealth of potentiality.

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Everything of importance has already been seen by someone who did not discover it.

Realization is… in itself the attainment of value

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.

He thinks about how, whatever being alive is, with all its pasts and presents and futures, it is most itself in the moments when you surface from a depth of numbness or forgetfulness that you didn't even know you were at, and break the surface.

because looking is just the start of understanding, just its surface, the top layer of any understanding, the girl is saying

Mark, shaken, realizes he has just made the terrible mistake of not just seeming to be but actually being sincere.

Polly was always shocked to learn how complacent she was, when she was certain of her good intentions.

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.

I don't know a thing yet, and I haven't lived. I'm starting to now, aren't I? No, you're asleep, you're always asleep.

but I know I never really arrive.

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly becomes a part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever." It

Just as our parents' souls revolted against God, their bodies revolted against their souls, to which they had been subject. And they realized 'that they were naked.