I Finally Realized Quotes

#1. At some point, I finally realized that stress made a really bad companion ... so I had it pack its shit and leave.

Steve Maraboli

#2. Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

Albert Camus

#3. I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.

Elton John

#4. I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make your record successful.

Patrick Wolf

#5. I finally realized that no one is perfect and that I like the fact that I look different and don't have the perfect body. No one does!

Shay Mitchell

#6. I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey

#7. I finally realized the happy medium, 'honey blonde' was the correct color and line for me.

Ann Sothern

#8. In fact, when I finally realized I was really going to write, when I was about thirty-four, I was working on my Ph.D. in Mathematics. I was just about to earn my Master's along the way, but I knew something was wrong because I found myself crying all the time.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#9. Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.

Robert Fulghum

#10. I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.

Alva Noto

#11. I finally realized that it's possible to love within a space that sometimes holds nothing but emptiness.. or nothing but darkness.
After all, we all have darkness within us.
Some of us more than others.

T.M. Frazier

#12. But then one day I finally realized that screaming at God and begging him to take away my pain wasn't going work. So I completely surrendered myself and stopped fighting him and I asked him what he wanted me to do. He said: JUST WORSHIP ME. PRAISE ME AND WORSHIP ME THROUGH THE PAIN. And

Brian Welch

#13. I finally realized there are no handsome princes - that it was all up to me ... that it had always been up to me.

Meg Cabot

#14. I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through the decades, that this is what I enjoy, practicing music and writing.

Andrew Hill

#15. When I finally realized that I didn't want to be a butch, I wanted to sleep with a butch, a whole new world opened up before my eyes.

Leslea Newman

#16. I finally realized how absurd it was that I'd worried so much about what my classmates thought about me. It's not like I wanted to look like them.

Stephanie Perkins

#17. I was such a smart kid, I should have figured out that the only way to really get my parents' attention was to disappoint them or fail. But by the time I finally realized that, succeeding was already a habit too ingrained to break.

Sarah Dessen

#18. I finally realized that until you understand why you do things, you have no control over what you do.

Jamila Wideman

#19. For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really ephemeral, and it took me a while, but I finally realized that that's just totally wrong.

Christopher Poole

#20. My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, 'intellectuals gone bad,' a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.

Anne Taintor

#21. I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.

Claire Danes

#22. I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.

Jack Gilbert

#23. I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love.

Mark Nepo

#24. I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

Ireland Baldwin

#25. I finally realized that I had to embrace the madness, let it transform me instead of letting it define me.

....

"You, my ferocious girl, are embracing the madness. Lean into it, won't ya?

R.L. Haas

#26. Even though I'd told her that I couldn't walk away from her, I finally realized that I loved her too much to fuck her life by staying, or to lose her completely by forcing us both to hang on until we hated each other.

Jamie McGuire

#27. I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.

Terence McKenna

#28. Things will happen that seem to be totally contradictory, but these are God's arrangements. It was a wonderful day when I finally realized I don't have to explained or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.

Charles R. Swindoll

#29. I finally realized that what I wanted didn't exist where I thought it did.

Kate Perry

#30. I finally realized that results are generated by activities. If I manage my activities then the results I want occur.

Dave Ramsey

#31. I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.

Paris Hilton

#32. But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

Robert MacNeil

#33. It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

Annie Dillard

#34. The moment-when I could no longer face myself in the mirror-wasn't easily explained; nor was the oppressive misery I experienced once I finally became the person I was meant to be but then realized with terrific horror how much I still hated her.

Jodi LaPalm

#35. Once, as a teenager, I had believed that people could change themselves. Finally I realized that all one could ever hope was understanding one's filthy self better.

Arthur Nersesian

#36. By the time I finally caught up with what the hell they were talking about, I realized I really didn't give a damn.

Kayce Lassiter

#37. I finally went
where everyone goes
and I realized
I was
never
missing
out.

Meraaqi

#38. It was an ending. I don't think I realized it at the time, and now wonder if anyone truly does recognize the event that starts an ending. Or is it when we look backwards, that we are finally able to understand." Eagle's Destiny ~ Chapter 1

C.J. Corbin

#39. It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.

Matthew Ashford

#40. And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.

Dave Pelzer

#41. After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way.

Isaac Asimov

#42. 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.

Ravi Zacharias

#43. My body flopped to the ground as I
realized my doom. I was in love. Finally. It's what every girl dreams about from the moment she starts
dreaming, to fall in love and be in love. Well I was in love, and I hated it.

The Hippie

#44. If you say I hide things because I'm shy, that can't be right. I've finally realized it's for a different reason
that I don't want to see the darkness that lies in my heart

Natsuo Kirino

#45. You are mine. I can do what I want with you. I can dress you. Fuck you. Send you away. Loan you to others. You belong to me. And you've finally realized it isn't romantic, it isn't sexy, or fun. It's something no one should want or desire. You're a captive.

Pepper Winters

#46. Finally, though, I arrived at a point where I decided this was bullshit. I stopped feeling as if I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I belonged anywhere I wanted to be - whether that was a boardroom, business class, or on

Sophia Amoruso

#47. But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.

Shelly Crane

#48. My brother, who grew up with three sisters, was I won't say how many years old when he finally realized that he did not have to wrap the towel around his chest when he came out of the shower.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#49. Jeff, I have a problem."
"I'm glad you've finally realized I'm your answer, Merit.

Chloe Neill

#50. I tried to reject everything I knew as a TV writer when I decided to be a novelist, and the books didn't work. Finally I realized I should go back to all the techniques I'd learned.

Robert Crais

#51. I realized that she had simply fulfilled her mission in this life and that she had escaped another dimension where her spirit, finally free of its material burden, would be more at home

Isabel Allende

#52. I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.

Dominic Cooper

#53. It was a number of years of crashing and burning before I made the discovery that I was not God. Finally I realized that though I was not God, I was of God

Nevada Barr

#54. Ah, Kurosaki, I see you've finally realized the importance of a cape.
~Uryu Ishida

Tite Kubo

#55. One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Mary J. Blige

#56. And I realized that even if she didn't know it yet, everything had changed for her. She wouldn't stay here now, no matter what happened with Will Traynor. She had an air about her, a new air of knowledge, of things seen, places she had been. My sister finally had new horizons.

Jojo Moyes

#57. So I pulled back from everything and everyone I'd known ... I realized I'd been changing even before we started moving,that my reinvention began when I was still in the most familiar of places. Once the setting was totally new,though, I finally could be,as well.

Sarah Dessen

#58. I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could ... As writers true to ourselves, it will always be hard, and if we're good, we'll always be in trouble. Let's be sure we deserve it.

Waldo Salt

#59. For I've finally realized, that I could be infinitely better than before, definitely stronger. I'll face whatever comes my way, I'll savor each moment of the day, Love as many people as I can along the way. Help someone who's given up, even if it's just to raise my eyes and pray.

Gloria Estefan

#60. What finally prompted me to lose weight was a view of myself in a hairdresser's full-length mirror when I was seated and wearing one of the salon's floral print robes and realized that I looked like a slipcovered club chair.

Mimi Sheraton

#61. And that's why I finally ended it. I realized today that it's exhausting to be a coward.

Julie Buxbaum

#62. I won contest after contest until finally I realized, "Ok, I am the best in the world, but now what?" So I opened my own company, but there was still that feeling of, "What else do I need to do?"

Christian Hosoi

#63. It's true that my mom loved it when I played Joanie Cunningham in the musical 'Happy Days,' but I think she finally realized I am never going to do 'Oklahoma!'

Christine Lakin

#64. He swore his love to me again and again until he finally realized that I cannot love anything right now. Falling in love is like holding a white flag out to your enemies and saying, "we give up, we're in love." Love is surrender.

Jennifer Lynch

#65. Finally, my truth became too loud for me to ignore any longer, and I realized that it had been there all along. I only needed to trust and listen.

M. Gayle

#66. I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.

George Saunders

#67. When I looked at my life's ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn't possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#68. I struggled with self-esteem issues as a young girl, and it was not until my gymnastics career was completed in 2000 that I realized my accomplishments would not have been possible without my type of body, and I finally started to appreciate and celebrate myself.

Dominique Dawes

#69. Silly me, thinking you actually had potential. I thought, Finally, she's realized she's a vampire. Now we're getting somewhere. But now you're just a big fluffy bunny with sharp teeth.

Julie Kagawa

#70. Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.

David Naughton

#71. I took his face in my hands, realized who he was, what he was, and finally - after a lifetime - let him go.

Mary Calmes

#72. I tried so many different musics. I kind of burned out on classical and wanted to make it fun again. I started playing with indie bands and country bands and finally realized electronic music brought my style to life.

Lindsey Stirling

#73. My whole body finally connected the dots, and I realized that even if we were never together, she'd ruined me and I'd never feel that way about anyone again.

Julie Murphy

#74. And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.

George Saunders

#75. Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.

Janet Evanovich

#76. It was the music that finally roused Leo back to consciousness. "Hey. I like that old song," he croaked, completely oblivious to the calamitous chain reaction of the previous 10 seconds. That is until he realized there was a dead body separating him and Kay.

Delora Dennis