Quotes About Realization

Keep dreaming in color And drawing your dreams On cement floors Until they are realized. —Alicia Keys

An aha moment is not a happy ending—it's an open doorway, one you have to choose to walk through.

Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.

In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly. Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had. It was not her fault. And it was therefore not my fault that I was unable to elicit it.

It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past.

All it takes is a single moment.

How sad it was not to know how happy you were until it was too late.

And perhaps I have tried too hard to be someone else without realizing at first what I presently am.

Would you look at that?

It was a moment before she replied. And in that moment, she realized that what was gone from her was the child in her, she'd crossed a brink from which there was no turning back. Whoever she had been, she was not anymore. And her life, for better or worse, would never again be what it had.

I'd recognized it only recently. I wasn't sure if it was because she had changed or I had, but it didn't really matter. I recognized it just the same... If you just noticed the shiny veneer on the outside, they'd always look perfect. So you had to peer closer, watch them when they didn't think they were being watched. Eventually, you'd notice the dings.

Independence, she's discovered, feels just as good as codependence once did. She's as surprised as anyone to realize this.

I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork.

For the first time I realize how perilous peace can be. I appreciate the tightrope that my grandfather has spent his whole life trying to walk. And now, more than ever, I grow terrified that I'm going to make us all fall down.

You don't have to do this, Kat." "I've been hearing that a lot lately." "He's right." "I didn't say who had said it," she countered. "You didn't have to." He looked out at the water. "You two are good together." "We're not together," Kat said automatically. "Sure you are. You just don't know it yet.

No! I need to go home," I say, but then the realization comes: My mother was my home. My mother is dead.

The high was over. Kat jerked back, two thoughts pounding her mind, screaming, I kissed Hale. But i was the second thought made her panic: Hale didn't kiss me back. "Sorry. I...

I had a pain in my neck from sleeping funny, at least five hours' worth of homework, and a newfound realization that woman cannot live on cherry-flavored lip gloss alone. I dug in the bottom of my bag and found a very questionable breath mint, and figured that if I was going to die of starvation, I should at least have minty-fresh breath for the benefit of whatever classmate or faculty member would be forced to give me CPR.

The man is strong. He's huge. But Alexei has something to fight for. And i realise with a start that the something is me. - Grace

As I thought of Boston; as I heard the words "get her" one more time; as I realised that Macey hadn't been the only Gallagher Girl on the roof that day.

Cuando sucedió, Santiago no se dio cuenta de que aquélla era la gota que colmaba el vaso.

Se levantó con brusquedad y se volvió para mirarme, y en aquel instante comprendí con una aterradora precisión que hasta entonces mi vida no había sido otra cosa que su ausencia.

Your potential remains useless unless utilized.

Every broken man comes to understand that'll he'll never find paradise when all that he wants was there all along.