I Quotes
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“I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit.”
Source: Misadventurous
“I realised I really didn’t know what I was doing and I felt her trace drowning in the middle of the cars and the people, in the middle of the streets and far away, in the secrets she so jealously kept.
I felt it. We were ever so close, ever so far.”
Source: Cielo Por Tu Luz
“I realised I really was shy. And once I was in it, I couldn't escape. I'd go to talk and find my face was made of cement. Nothing would come out. On winter days, I'd feel myself turning grey at the edges and fading into the walls.
Was this defensive strategy? It was paralysing. And it went on for years.”
Source: Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World
“I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book”
“I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other option.”
Source: I Too Had a Dream
“I realised in Sri Lanka that my dream of playing in a World Cup was a bridge too far.”
“I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.”
“I realised life is so short and precious, you should do things that make you feel inspired, that push you and teach you something. I'd rather not have a big house, a huge closet of clothes, diamonds and a private plane, and instead a body of work that I'm proud of.”
“I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'”
“I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn't make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn't make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful.”
Source: Conversations with Friends
“I realised nothing was permanently broken, I needed to take control and make changes.”
“I realised one day not so long ago, that I believe in many things, but that I do not trust any of them. I have, for the longest time, not trusted anything that I believe in. And so it dawned upon me: that belief and trust are two entirely different things. One may believe wholeheartedly without trusting for a minute. I have been like a seed in the ground: believing that the Sun is shining somewhere up there; believing that rain falls and that it probably feels really good too; believing that there is Winter and Summer, Spring and Fall... but never trusting anything that I believe in enough to break through the soil and reach my branches up towards the sky! The French have a saying from the 15'th Century: "Fleuris là où tu es plantée", which means, "Bloom where you are planted". Blooming has everything to do with trust, I have discovered, and very little to do with belief. To become anything at all, the seed must trust. And so shall I.”
“I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We cant express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.”
“I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.”
“I realised something else at that point, I used smokes to avoid talking about emotional things, “Just nipping for a smoke” when someone started talking about something I didn't want to talk about. “Just off for a fag, back in a minute” when someone came in that I didn't like. I was using it as a crutch to get out of speaking my mind and I'd never been shy of speaking my mind. What else had I used smoking to cover up? I realised in that moment that smoking was not my friend, it was my enemy disguised as my friend. It was the ultimate head fuck. It made me feel great whilst it was screwing me but it was screwing me.”
Source: Mentality - A book for men
“I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a mythical premise for a stupid joke, I found playing off truth got the best result.”
“I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming
American.”
“I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.”
“I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that I find is a great plus.”
“I realised that I did not want only to imagine, as a normal person might be satisfied with doing. They had roused within me a wild desire to be like them, to be them, to find the pleasure that they had found – a dark forbidden pleasure – and to act with the same beautiful voracity, the same unbounded passion as they had acted, showing neither shame nor fear nor uncertainty, only the most primal of desires.”
Source: The Erotic Notebooks
“I realised that I had a choice to either feel angry about not having arms and legs, or thankful for having my family, friends and my little foot.”
“I realised that I had become too introverted. When you are the person everyone comes to in an isolated area, you have no-one to discuss things with. It's good up to a point but dreadful in a way. You simply have to have the corners rubbed off you and have criticism that's pretty cruel if you are to toe the line.”
“I realised that I had healed when my mind could no longer entertain dark environments, emotions or mindsets.”
“I realised that I needed the dark and the light to be a whole person. Trying to be happy by neglecting the harsh reality of my emotional world didn't work. All colours and shades of reality are experienced and by allowing these, without judgement, my heart opened to me. Self-love always starts with 'holding the hurt'.”
“I realised that I relied on and needed him way more than I had noticed before, my life was good, but the little things that kept me going were related to Logan.”
Source: Light into my Yang: Auclairs Series Book One: Adelinne
“I realised that if I did what I wanted to do, it would work.”
“I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.”
“I realised that ignorance is not a lack of information but a lack of vigilance and dedication in daily life.”
“I realised that in a lot of failures, there is a lot of opportunities.”
“I realised that morality is elastic and that you can stretch it this way or that according to individual need and that the poor who can allow themselves to lead strict moral existences are the exception.”
Source: Forty Lost Years
“I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.”
Source: Excellent Women
“I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.”
“I realised that she was early drunk, in that squall of coherence before slurred speech and clumsiness and collapse.”
Source: Shantaram
“I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!”
“I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.”
“I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'”
“I realised that there was nothing I could go back to –
Yet I craved the past more than anything.”
Source: Where the Quiet Blooms
“I realised that there was nothing I could go back too –
Yet I graved the past more than anything.”
Source: Where the Quiet Blooms
“I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.”
“I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.”
“I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.”
“I realised that you don't have to jump through a series of complicated hoops to achieve a goal.”
“I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.”
“I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.”
“I realised the hardest part wouldn’t be facing them–it would be facing myself.”
“I realised the world is a beautiful place and life so limitless with infinite possibilities.”
Source: I Still Remember
“I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.”
“I realised throughout writing, that realistic can appear unrealistic in reality. What you may think is unbelievable is in fact someone's life.”
Source: A Woman’s Worth?
“I realised what a powerful position you are in if you own the rights to your film because then you control the distribution and I ended up getting 25 million viewers for McLibel and that's what it's all about for me.”