Top 100 Quotes About Realizing
#1. Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
#2. But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.
Ellen Hopkins
#3. I kind of grew up my whole life as an underdog. I had two older brothers who would beat on me and then let me know I wasn't much compared to them. And it's still like that. Guys like that keep you humble, being around them every day and realizing I'm still the little brother to them.
A. J. Hawk
#4. A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.
Ari Marcopoulos
#5. Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
Jonas Salk
#6. Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself. Realizing that you're gorgeous, you're fearless and unpredictable, you're a firecracker spitting light, entrancing a hundred faces that stare up at you with starry eyes.
Leah Raeder
#7. The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.
Stevie Nicks
#8. I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.
Nancy Lancaster
#9. The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.
Babatunde Adebimpe
#10. At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it.
Erich Fromm
#12. I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type a question into Google and watch the question auto-fill. In that moment, we know someone else has asked that same question. The gift of realizing you're not alone is incredibly powerful.
Ze Frank
#13. You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it's either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won't be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success.
Ben E. King
#14. Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X that X is true, or of why people do Y that Y is good.
Raymond Geuss
#15. What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
Edgar Quinet
#16. Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?
Bob Kerrey
#17. I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just
Billy Corgan
#18. We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.
Viggo Mortensen
#19. You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It's a script. In the process of realizing that, new ideas can come, one way or another. Through a happy accident, they just come to you.
David Lynch
#20. Awoke to find three vultures sitting on the fence. Realizing they were a portent of impending death I shot them.
Bridget Allison
#22. Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. I've done some crazy stuff in my time and yet I can feel infinitely alive curled up on a sofa reading a book. So, what makes me feel alive? I guess it's realizing I am part of the world around me.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#23. I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
#24. All good ideas are terrible ...
Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
Seth Godin
#25. When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth.
You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you and you did not know it.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#26. Dancing is so great because there are all the little details, and the little movements, and the little muscles that are working without you even realizing.
Julianne Hough
#27. The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.
Ashly Lorenzana
#28. I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.
Oprah Winfrey
#29. If we do not have a vision before us of where we are headed, we will assume that the status quo is normal, and that we and our cultures and our societies are "only human," without ever realizing that we have never seen normal humanity, in our lives.
Russell D. Moore
#30. I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.
Sherry Glaser
#31. Having kids had a big effect on me, but nothing more than when they started to get older- that really made me realize how fleeting each moment is.
Frank Iero
#32. At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing I probably wasn't quite smart enough to do that. But I am still hugely interested in cosmology and astrophysics. That is my geeky subject area.
Gemma Chan
#34. You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
Edward Albee
#35. We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.
William Safire
#36. As you get older and as you experience and go through different things you realize you have to set boundaries. You have to for your life. You have to say this is OK and this is not OK. This is what I do for a living and this is my life. It's the only one I get and so I have to set boundaries.
Jennifer Lopez
#37. Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.
John Wooden
#38. Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
Joe Gores
#40. Time and again the people still in the camp, realizing they were now trapped, called to God in a hundred different dialects. He laughed and cried at once. He had so many names, yet could not answer to any of them.
Ron Currie Jr.
#41. Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#42. I believe we will see a biofuels resurgence. While gas prices skyrocket and we continue to wage wars for oil, while spills, fracking, tar sands and the oil madness of our empire continue, people are waking up and realizing that you can't be against petroleum and against fuels that come from nature.
Josh Tickell
#43. You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.
Hank Azaria
#44. I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.
Erin McKeown
#45. But she actually was glad to have identified the one thing about Jasper she'd change, because it was similar to realizing what you'd forgotten to take on a trip, and if it was only perfume, as opposed to your driver's license, you were relieved.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#46. Realizing you've got shit on your fingers is the first step toward washing your hands.
James S.A. Corey
#47. Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I'm on a roll second to none.
Hugh Hefner
#48. I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#49. Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.
Bill Gothard
#50. The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.
Bryan Adams
#51. Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.
Stanley Milgram
#52. Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late.
Marlon James
#54. People respect me; I respect them. I'll never change. I realize who I am.
Michael Vick
#55. Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder.
Ken Rosenthal
#56. Realize you are worthy of your life and live accordingly.
Gary Zukav
#57. Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'
Chris Robinson
#58. I'm so, so sorry. Can you forgive the dumbest guy on the planet for not realizing that the most perfect girl for him was here all along?
A Meredith Walters
#59. Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.
Victoria Osteen
#60. I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.
Wentworth Miller
#61. How could anyone go this far down the rabbit hole without realizing they needed help?
Francesca Zappia
#62. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
Eckhart Tolle
#63. By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
#64. It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself,
Anne Carson
#65. I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.
Brian Tracy
#66. I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.
Milla Jovovich
#67. Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement.
Paul Tournier
#68. Everything that happens is God's will. When you realize that, you're home free.
Byron Katie
#69. Without realizing it, I had said goodbye to traditional employment. I never punched a clock again. I made my own time and my own money.
Patti Smith
#70. At one time, you think you're invincible. This just can't happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you've got only one life.
Ray Rhodes
#71. You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.
Gary Renard
#72. My agent called me at 5:30am, and I thought the set of my movie had burned down, or Josh [Hutcherson] had died, or something ... I didn't realize! I was so tired!
Jennifer Lawrence
#73. I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.
Justin Vernon
#74. It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives.
Dalai Lama
#75. Making every desire come true is not difficult once you realize that the same thing is always at work - you are transforming pure awareness from one state to another.
Deepak Chopra
#76. What's important is to be myself! To dream doesn't mean putting yourself in a box. It means realizing the essence ... of what you really want to do.
Bisco Hatori
#77. To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.
Iyanla Vanzant
#78. We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way
Alexis Ohanian
#79. I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.
Claire Danes
#80. I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.
Ezra Taft Benson
#81. Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.
Brene Brown
#82. We live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence. And what we don't realize is that ultimately that kind of manhood ultimately kills you.
Kevin Powell
#83. There are a lot of people holding on to the old Jessie J - whatever that means - but I think there's a lot more people realizing what I'm about. I think people like it.
Jessie J.
#85. We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own.
Hill Harper
#86. I don't even understand why I have 1.7 million Twitter followers. Every day, I want to remind them and say, "Do you realize I'm an astrophysicist? Do you know what you're doing here?"
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#87. The more we grow to know God, the more we realize how little we know of Him.
Steven J. Lawson
#88. Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.
Edward Carpenter
#89. Get out, realize your dream, and go for it
Kai Greene
#90. Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.
Joey Comeau
#91. Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.
Michael Beckwith
#92. When the girl asked Gansey, he just gazed at her for a minute too long, not realizing he was being rude until too late. This was so far from Richard Gansey's scene that he had no words at all.
Maggie Stiefvater
#93. I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.
Darren Aronofsky
#94. Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.
Rabindranath Tagore
#95. What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.
Diane Duane
#96. Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.
Mooji
#97. Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.
Tony Robbins
#98. At times we feel something is going to pierce the silence we are living in; after a while we realize it's the silence.
Gopichand Lagadapati
#99. The day you realize you don't have to make sense to anyone is the day you start to make sense to you.
Greg Behrendt
#100. If you crossed Matthew Henry's path, you would quickly realize that here was someone taking thankful notice of all God was doing for him, and doing so in an attractively joyful way that was infectious.
C.J. Mahaney
