Quotes About A Moment Of Realization

#1. I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I was.

Ashton Eaton

#2. A moment of realization is worth a thousand prayers.

Woody Harrelson

#3. This one move, this one intense moment has brought out everything that is hidden deep within my soul.

Brandy Nacole

#4. In the hall itself the din of the music - for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for - was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the realization that we had never dared to play music as we wanted, and this was how loud we wanted.

Jack Kerouac

#5. Oh God, this is my fantasy! Where those just-friend boys suddenly realize they love me.'
'I don't know if this was like that.'
'What happened?'
He thought for a moment. 'Well. I realized I loved her.'
Hannah gasped. 'Oh God, that's so sweet.

Cammie McGovern

#6. Did all outcasts come to this realization at a certain point in life? That being outcast from a bogus and pornographic society actually was a good thing? I hoped so. I hoped there was an army of us out there, smiling about it that very moment.

A.S. King

#7. Remember that the moment you reduce the statement of your desire, and a plan for its realization, to writing, you have actually taken the first of a series of steps, which will enable you to convert the thought into its physical counterpart.

Napoleon Hill

#8. The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)

Gay Hendricks

#9. The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

Theodor Adorno

#10. You are a livingness, a verb. What is arising in you, at this moment, is the great realization.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#11. We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day - just by living. And if one realizes this, is this very realization itself not a conscious consent to murder? If a truly circumspect Jain was truly serious about not killing anything, wouldn't his only recourse be to kill himself?

Mark X.

#12. An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now.

Eckhart Tolle

#13. It's not an easy time for any parent, this moment when the realization dawns that you've given birth to something that will never see things the way you do, despite the fact that it is your living legacy, that it bears your name.

Richard Russo

#14. If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on realizing that they have actually destroyed the world. Therefore I suggest that if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#15. He comes here at the peril of his life, for the realization of his fixed idea. In the moment of realization, after all his toil and waiting, you cut the ground from under his feet, destroy his idea, and make his gains worthless to him. Do you see nothing that he might do, under the disappointment?

Charles Dickens

#16. The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature.

Enza Vita

#17. 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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#18. When you realize that the feeling you have - is - the response you choose, you are free in that moment.

Bryant McGill

#19. And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

Robert James Waller

#20. Yesterday is a closed door. Tomorrow is the opening of a new one. What are you doing to seize the moment?

D. Allen Miller

#21. If you are satisfied, you bring your satisfaction to the moment and fill the circumstances of your life with that satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied, however, no one and nothing can produce contentment for you.

Shya Kane

#22. Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense, a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve.

Dan Brown

#23. An instant realization sees endless time. Endless time is as one moment. When one comprehends the endless moment He realizes the person who is seeing it.

Paul Reps

#24. Gratitude is the realization that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.

M.J. Ryan

#25. The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development- whether psychological or material- one must pass on to the actual realization.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#26. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

Annie Dillard

#27. ...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.

Ruth Dugdall

#28. One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#29. One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine.

Eckhart Tolle

#30. I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

Steven Pinker

#31. Happiness is your True Nature.
Within you is Unimaginable Beauty.
Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment.
Through the clear Realization of the Truth,
your Real Self will come shining through.

Robert Adams

#32. But death, as in birth, never comes at a convenient time. No matter how prepared you are that the moment is nigh, no matter how anticipatory you have been, there is never a moment where the realization that this it it, my life is changed forever, doesn't come as a bit of a shock.

Kristy Woodson Harvey

#33. The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.

Melody Carstairs

#34. Shh," I interrupted him. "Hold on a second. I think I'm having an epiphany here.

Stephenie Meyer

#35. I sat on that crowded bus, I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasn't going to change unless I made it change. In that single moment, with that realization, I decided to dedicate a year to trying to be happier.

Gretchen Rubin

#36. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.

Eckhart Tolle

#37. Fear about what, exactly?'
'Everything,' I said. 'But mostly just the realization that all it takes is one moment for your entire world to turn upside down. One wrong decision, and it's over.

Kristina McBride

#38. It's not that the people are bad but it's the situation which ruins the thoughts of the people. The situation where we forget what's right and what's wrong ... that's the moment where we do wrong which we realize long later ...

Debolina Bhawal

#39. Nothing is going to make us free because only the present moment can make us free. That realization is the awakening.

Eckhart Tolle

#40. I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.

Dan Winters

#41. A realization came to Books in that moment, one that shook his beliefs even more than when he had learned magic existed: Sicarius cared.

Lindsay Buroker

#42. Once waking into the realization that eternity is waiting in every moment, I discovered that wealth is time, not money.

Mark Nepo

#43. The moment when you realize no one understands, no one ever did, no one ever will.
You were alone, you always will be.
But may be, just may be, someone will look up to you someday. And when they do, remember to hide those tearful eyes, to smile and to say - look, life's so good.

Sanhita Baruah

#44. You? - his words overwhelmed him with a realization of the cowardice which had driven him from her at the very moment of attainment. Yes - he had always feared his fate, and he was too honest to disown his cowardice now;

Edith Wharton

#45. He relented to the kiss and gave of himself what she required, his lips parting in symmetry with hers until the moment of realization collapsed.

Thomm Quackenbush

#46. Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

Chuck Palahniuk

#47. At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

Ernst Toller

#48. Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You cannot be totally relaxed right now. At the innermost core a tension will persist.

Rajneesh

#49. Always amusing, that moment when realization finally kicked in. Sometimes, I wished I could've recorded the shit to play over and over for laughs.

Keri Lake

#50. You will be blessed the moment you realize you already are.

Bryant McGill

#51. Every now and then you have like a realization moment where you get goosebumps and think: I am literally the luckiest person in the world. - Niall Horan

Niall Horan

#52. Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#53. And in that moment, I was hit with the realization that this delicate layer of atmosphere is all that protects every living thing on Earth from perishing in the harshness of space.

Ron Garan

#54. People search for the inner meanings of life instead of living it to the fullest. Life is too beautiful to be analyzed. Living is a spontaneous response meant to be taken in a stride.

Adhish Mazumder

#55. I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and we plugged it into a database. And we immediately saw that this gene was in an amazing number of species of bacteria. It was a huge moment of realization.

Bonnie Bassler

#56. The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.

Emmet Fox

#57. Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in.

Lolah Runda

#58. The saddest realization I've had in my life is that my parents are people. Sad, human people. I aged a decade in that moment.

Amy Schumer

#59. Each moment of zazen is equally wholeness of practice, equally wholeness of realization. This is not only practice while sitting, it is like a hammer striking emptiness: before and after, its exquisite peal permeates everywhere. How can it be limited to this moment?

Dogen

#60. It is the feeling of never knowing what we want that truly drives us all mad.... Holding things because we think in a moment we love them only to uncurl our fingers later and softly give them back to the earth.

Christopher Poindexter