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Quotes About Realization

Well, fortunately I know what the best looks like now," she says as she links her arms around my neck.
~ Kyra Davis
You had the power all along, my dear.
~ L. Frank Baum
You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.
~ L. Frank Baum
He examined the contents of the closets and selected an elegant suit of clothing. Strangely enough, everything about it was shaggy, although so new and beautiful, and he sighed with contentment to realize that he could now be finely dressed and still be the shaggy man.
~ L. Frank Baum
The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.
~ Ali Shariati
We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one
~ Tom Hiddleston
It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
~ William Faulkner
In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.
~ Dogen
A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.
~ Swami Vivekananda
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
~ J. G. Holland
When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.
~ Peter Boghossian
The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.
~ W. H. Auden
Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it'll be.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.
~ Martina Boone, Compulsion
Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.
~ Maya Angelou
Mai inainte n-am stiut - acum stiu, dupa cum stiti si voi: rasul poate avea culori diferite. Nu este decat ecoul indepartat al exploziei din interiorul vostru: poate sunt rachete de sarbatoare - rosii, albastre, aurii, poate au sarit in sus franturi de trup omenesc...
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Per la mia imbranataggine in materia, ero come una casa senza porte e finestre: l'amore faceva su e giù, io sentivo il rumore dei passi, ma credevo che fosse lì per caso e diretto altrove. Finché, un giorno, si fece avanti e suonò il campanello.
~ Yu Hua
Insensitive people are only upset when they actually see the blood, but actually by the time that the blood has been shed the tragedy has already completed.
~ Yukio Mishima
True pain can only come gradually. It is exactly like tuberculosis in that the disease has already progressed to a critical stage before the patient becomes aware of its symptoms.
~ Yukio Mishima
Il dolore genuino può maturare soltanto a grado a grado. Somiglia strettamente alla tubercolosi, in quanto il male è già progredito e ha raggiunto lo stadio critico prima che il paziente si sia reso conto dei suoi sintomi.
~ Yukio Mishima
I hope that I am making myself understood. The Golden Temple once more appeared before me. Or rather, I should say that the breast was transformed into the Golden Temple.
~ Yukio Mishima
Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge: Knowledge means to know yourself, heart and soul. If you have failed to understand yourself, Then all of your reading has missed its call.
~ Yunus Emre
In the end he came to the realisation that suffering is not caused by ill fortune, by social injustice, or by divine whims. Rather, suffering is caused by the behaviour patterns of one's own mind.
~ Yuval Noah Harari