Top 72 Quotes About Realizing Who You Are
#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. 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
#28. 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
#29. I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.
Sherry Glaser
#30. 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
#31. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.
John Wooden
#37. Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
Joe Gores
#39. 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.
#40. Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Realizing you've got shit on your fingers is the first step toward washing your hands.
James S.A. Corey
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.
Bill Gothard
#49. 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
#50. Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.
Stanley Milgram
#51. 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
#53. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
Eckhart Tolle
#54. Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the fact for a long time. [About F. Scott Fitzgerald]
Maxwell Perkins
#55. Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source to realize who you are.
Deepak Chopra
#56. The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.
Terry Gross
#57. Such honesty comes with a price, but when you get past the hurt and shock of realizing that you're faulted and frequently wrong, you also realize that you are really loved and respected for who you are, and you become a better person.
Peter Yarrow
#58. What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It's not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It's all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play.
Jonny Greenwood
#59. When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.
Eckhart Tolle
#60. I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.
Uzo Aduba
#61. And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.
Jessica Brown Findlay
#62. The best thing is to realize that you are who you are and you gotta work with what you got.
Zendaya
#63. But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.
Richard Masur
#64. There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.
Robert Breault
#65. There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind - you are the one who hears it.
Michael Singer
#66. Are you staying with us? It could be dangerous,' said William, realizing that he was saying this to a vampire iconographer who undied every time he took a picture.
Terry Pratchett
#67. I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts, that focusing the mind on bodily sensations and breath will ground us in the present moment. Yoga is about realizing who you really are, aside from your persona.
James Fox
#68. Realize that the people who are working with you, this is their life. You know, 80% of their time is spent at work. Make sure that they're proud of what they're doing, that they're enjoying what they're doing.
Richard Branson
#69. If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity.
Peace Pilgrim
#70. The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence of healing.
Eckhart Tolle
#71. There is no shame in what happened to you. There is only shame in being too much of a coward to carry on. In not realizing that what happened to you is not you. What happened is not the same as who you are.
Morgan Rice
#72. I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.
Bruce Lee
