Quotes About Realization

When I was twenty-one, I finally realized that I was gay, after several years of living in denial. That's hardly exceptional. Many gay men spend their entire teenage years unsure about their sexuality.

How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is biology enables, culture forbids. Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It's culture that obliges people to realize some possibilities while forbidding others.

Today, when we finally realise that the keys to happiness are in the hands of our biochemical system, we can stop wasting our time on politics and social reforms, putsches and ideologies, and focus instead on the only thing that can make us truly happy: manipulating our biochemistry.

However, the Scientific Revolution freed humankind from this conviction. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very good reason to seek new knowledge, which opened up the scientific road to progress

In the end he came to the realization 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

am depressed because I am being exploited by capitalists, and because under the prevailing social system I have no chance of realising my aims, the therapist may well say that I am projecting onto 'the social system' my own inner difficulties, and I am projecting onto 'the capitalists' unresolved issues with my mother.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago."

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

With humility, we pursue God and delight to know Him. We increasingly realize that He is our most valuable treasure, and our hearts sing with gratitude

It's bold, but I don't mean to be. It's more of a curious realization. A kiss is on thing. Four thirty in the morning is another.

Happiness is there when we realize what we have and learn to appreciate it.

Sometimtes you don't even know what you really want until you get what you thought you wanted.

realized he wasn't the one

Sometimes it takes a crisis for us to discover what we really can do when we have to," her uncle said. "You had to ride Sultan, so you did. Now you know how easy it is. It's as simple as that.

Valerie Sherwood, I said to myself, you're going to die.

Pân? când nu am în?eles c? ?i eu sunt muritor, nu am ?tiut ce este cu adev?rat etern

One of the more curious facts about human beings is that they can spend a day of introspection without discovering what is obvious to anyone who has spent a half hour in their company.

Berhenti mencari maka kamu akan menemukan -Akar

Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.

Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.

What you seek, you already are. Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source and realize who you are. Seeking

But the ancient sages of India taught that fear was born of duality; when human beings realized that they were no longer part of God, they immediately became afraid of what might happen to them. In

The fire of passion burns out eventually. Then you dig through the ashes and discover a gem. You pick it up; you look at it with disbelief. The gem was inside you all the time. It is yours to keep forever. It is buddha.