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“At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.”

Kind Ends Facts Peace Amount Realization Making Peace Small Amounts

Author:Charlize Theron

“A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.”

Realizing Dialogue Realization Lectures

Author:George Wald

“So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.”

Self Impossible Human Nature Self Love Defined Realization Loving Yourself Loving Everything

Author:Alan Watts

“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”

Source: Native Son

“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.”

“Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.”

Has Beens Christ Died Raised Realization Sanctification

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.”

Source: Toward a Psychology of Being

“It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!”

Source: Invisible Man

“There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization.”

Trying Facts Bigs Reality Integrity Mere Realization Magnificent Precision Frailty

Author:Bruno Schulz

“You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.”

Want Helping Might Lying Horrible Realization Crush

Book:City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.”

Ends Seems Time Change Infinite Forgotten Passing Passings Realization Finite Tunnels Strangeness Sudden Realization

Book:Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang

Source: Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang

“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has it's own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.”

Source: Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)

“A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at himself for getting lost, until a realization allowed him to transcend his ire. "How can I be lost? I've never been here before?" pp 104-105”

Men Way Firsts Lost Meetings Rage Realization Istanbul Getting Lost Business Meeting

Author:Melody Beattie

“Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.”

World Littles Art Consciousness Mystery Expectations Art Is Realization Concrete Veils Pointless Artifacts

Book:Duma Key: A Novel

Source: Duma Key: A Novel

“All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.”

Dream Happens Realization Your Dreams Dreams Come True Melting

Author:Mitch Albom

“But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.”

World Kind Dream Running Wish Realizing Morning Risk Dangerous Regret Late Wake Up Realization Too Late Waking Dangerous Things Truly Living

Author:Kinky Friedman

“One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.”

“Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”

Art Real Reality Certain Individual Difficult Love Is Moral Morality Perception Discovery Essence Oneself Realization Real Love

Author:Iris Murdoch

“There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.”

Done Rooms Realization

Book:The love of a good woman: stories

Source: The love of a good woman: stories

“Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.”

“Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are considered "useless," will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. The arts are the science of enjoying life.”

Trying Believe Art Reason Whole Problem Given I Believe Enjoy Attention Mankind Disease Cures Realization Useless Reason Why Enjoy Life Breakthrough Daily Problems

Author:John Maeda

“Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.”

Made Desire Born Natural Effort Learning Study Ignorance Achievement Advantage Painful Made It Realization Ease Acquire Possessed

Author:Confucius

“You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared -”

Needs Mean Said Lasts Force Chance Goes On Mere Impression Realization Gloom Last Chance

Author:Jack Kerouac

“The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.”

Humans Choices Realizing Destiny Fate Mystery Depends Realization Cycles Inhuman Cockroaches

Author:Clarice Lispector

“The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.”

Doe Self Realizing Aim Constant Self Realization Realization

Author:Marianne Moore

“A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.”

Men Self Might Eye Dark Taken Risk Angel Instinct Self Realization Realization His Eyes Illegal Truest

Author:Jean Cocteau

“I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.”

“Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release. table ivory elephant charm rainbow onion hairdo violence melodrama honey...None of it moved her. She addressed the world honestly searching for something deserving of the volumes of love she knew she had within her but to each she would have to say I don't love you.”

“At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.”

May Moments Lasts Spirituality Return Messages Let Me Unions Fingers Realization That Moment Compassionate Slides Unspoken Let Me Go

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in fact, he was skeptical of all professional learnedness, whether it was that of the philosophers or of the learned men of his own generation, the Sophists. The wisdom he meant was of a different kind. It was simply the realization: how little do I know! Those who did not know this, he taught, knew nothing at all. This is the true scientific spirit.”

Ifs Knows Men Should Kind Mean Littles Different Facts Spirit Realizing Generations Taught Philosopher Realization Different Kinds Skeptical Stressed Wisest Wisest Man

Author:Karl Popper

“All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.”

Men Needs Has Beens Natural Pleasure Poor Rich Cutting Food Deny Hungry Realization Fullness Rich Or Poor Cutting Off

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world.”

World Mind Firsts Humans Children Young Mother Influence Security Kissing Pages Ill Affection Motherhood Realization Human Life Tenderness Stamps Assurance Young Children Caress Unwritten

Author:David O. McKay

“I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled.”

Looks Dream Respect Jew Realization Distinction American Dream Respecting Others Skin Color Separateness Unfulfilled Dreams Brotherhood And Peace Living The American Dream

Book:All Labor Has Dignity

Source: All Labor Has Dignity

“I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized because I realized that there was a science-based path that would take me from my job as a perennial “victim” to my new position as “co-creator” of my destiny. (Prologue, xv)”

Character Jobs Belief Destiny Path Position Victim Creator I Realized Realization Take Me My Destiny Prologue New Position

Book:The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles: Easyread Large Edition

Source: The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles: Easyread Large Edition

“What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.”

Should War Matter Realizing Horror Direct Intention Guilty Realization Eras Shakes Inhumanity Lethargy

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.”

Source: Survival In Auschwitz

“Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical question when she roared, "It's a construct!" With a dismiissive swing of Redd's arm, Alyss and her army began to shimmer, the billon points of engery that formed them monentarily visible before exploding apart into nothing. Redd scoped the queendom with her imagination's eye. "Where are you, Alyss? Where is my dear little niece?”

Ifs Trying Littles Has Beens Eye Faces Imagination Stupid Arms Cat Army Dear Realization Visible Swings Constructs Exploding Niece Rhetorical Shimmer Rhetorical Question Sudden Realization

Author:Frank Beddor

“It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.”

Way Sometimes Moments Feelings Pain Next Loss Grief Week Periods Aging Painful Senses Tricks Realization Knees Unexpected Rip Protective

Book:Morning is a long time coming

Source: Morning is a long time coming

“Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing on where you would rather be, you begin to find peace right now, in the present. Then, as you move around, try new things, and meet new people, you carry that sense of inner peace with you. It's absolutely true that, "Wherever you go, there you are.”

Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

“Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.”

Humans Self Existence Self Realization Realization Human Existence Fulfilment

Author:Arthur Miller

“Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him”

Heart Mother Father Behinds Happened Brother Broken Realization Shooting Beloved Stations Grandfather Drowning Halfway Corpses Oysters Muttering Internment Zinc Beloved Brother

Author:Michael Chabon

“This is our one and only chance at mortal life-here and now. The longer we live, the greater is our realization that it is brief. Opportunities come, and then they are gone. I believe that among the greatest lessons we are to learn in this short sojourn upon the earth are lessons that help us distinguish between what is important and what is not. I plead with you not to let those most important things pass you by. As you plan for that illusive, nonexistent future when you will have time to do all that you want to do. Instead, find you in the journey now.”

Want Believe Important Helping Earth Opportunity I Believe Chance Gone Greater Plans Journey Lessons Important Things Realization Mortals Here And Now

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God; that you do not have to pray that it come to you; that God’s omnipresence is your omnipresence; and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing.”

Needs Mind Soul Self Body Knowing Praying Possession Kingdoms Self Realization Realization Kingdom Of God Mind Body And Soul Autobiography Of A Yogi

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.”

Love Children Stories Age Fall Parent Realizing Cases Birth Promise Lucky Tests Falling In Love Wander Realization Settling Phrases Mortality Story Of My Life Birth And Death

Author:Mitch Albom

“I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time.”

May Past Lord Struggle Wonderful Painful Realization Wonderful Things Painful Past

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose -- and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredibly unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.”

Ifs World Believe Purpose Can Do Realizing Space Wonderful Special Essentials Unique Illusion Accidents Tiny Realization Combination Tapestry

Book:LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING

Source: LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING

“What are you doing here? (Artemis) I wanted to thank you for what you did tonight, but as I considered that, it dawned on me that you have never once in eleven thousand years done anything for me for free. The sheer fear factor of that realization alone has made me come seeking you. So what gives? (Acheron)”

Giving Years Made Done Wanted Thousand Seeking Factors Realization Tonight Sheer Thousand Years Eleven Artemis

Book:Seize The Night

Source: Seize The Night

“Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.”

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Book:Fire from Within

Source: Fire from Within

“There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty were so real, and so near, that I could reach out and touch Him, as I could this wonderful work of His, if I dared. I feel like saying to Him: 'To the extent of my brain power I realize Your presence, and all it is in me to comprehend of Your power. Help me to learn, even this late, the lessons of Your wonderful creations. Help me to unshackle and expand my soul to the fullest realization of Your wonders. Almighty God, make me bigger, make me broader!”

Source: A Girl of the Limberlost

“One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?”

Knows World Giving Enough Today Ignorance Lucky Towns Blue Realization Flash Breeze Curtains Vitality Lifting Doorways Epiphany

Author:Frances Mayes

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