Top 100 Quotes About Realizing
#1. White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.
Luther Standing Bear
#2. Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
Adam Michnik
#3. Take great pleasure and joy in the outcome of a time of suffering, trial, or persecution, realizing that we are enhancing our heavenly reward and understanding more about the power of suffering (Rev. 2:10).
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#4. Realizing the emptiness of a "spirituality"
and of a "spiritual" nurture
that remains in the clouds need not bring us or our children to a dead end. It is a turning point. Now we can begin to deepen our awareness of the genuine spirituality of life's humblest moments.
Jean Grasso Fitzpatrick
#5. Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.
Starhawk
#6. The question was how you ignored someone's request to be left alone - even if it meant jeopardizing the friendship. It was a wretched little koan: How can you help someone who won't be helped while realizing that if you don't try to help, then you're not being a friend at all?
Hanya Yanagihara
#7. In the case of Michael Moore, having a deep, I'd even say passionate, understanding of other types of people in America who might be progressive thinkers without even realizing it.
Jello Biafra
#8. Many people have wonderful dreams, but die without realizing them. It is because they do not know how to get a hold of a dream and work with it to make it happen. Everything happens by laws."
(From the Secrets To Divine Manifestations by Alain Yaovi M. Dagba
Alain Yaovi M. Dagba
#9. The truth of who we are dissolves the illusions when they arise, simply by us not buying into them anymore. By realizing they were counterfeit bliss. By and by, oneness dissolves what was once separation.
Tehya Sky
#10. Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views
Gautama Buddha
#11. Already he was realizing that he would be more ashamed of her in the city than he was here. Then, quite suddenly, he was not ashamed of her, but of himself. Deeply ashamed.
Warren Eyster
#12. He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment.
Cristina Marrero
#13. Seeing everything through different eyes,
as I look to the sky with love in my sight,
realizing what this ride does to me inside.
Jess "Chief" Brynjulson
#14. Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realizing you've got to make your own way.
Saoirse Ronan
#15. It was still years before Desdemona, cutting cucumbers, would lean against the corner of the kitchen table and, without realizing it, would lean in a little harder, and after that would find herself taking up that position every day, the table corner snug between her legs.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#16. One of the first things that helped me to understand certain things about writing was seeing 'The Iceman Cometh' in the Village when I was a kid, before I ever became a newspaperman, and realizing that the world I knew could also be the subject of some amazing stuff.
Pete Hamill
#17. You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.
Clay Aiken
#18. She knew Neal loved her.
Good for him for realizing it wasn't enough to make him happy. That was very mature of him. He was probably saving them both a lot of heartache.
Rainbow Rowell
#19. There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.
Robert Breault
#20. People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
Salma Hayek
#21. But I didn't want this. Feeling like a house of cards and realizing he had the power to hold me together or scatter me.
Natalie Herzer
#22. We live in a society running from pain through alcohol, through too much exercise, through sugar, through drugs - as opposed to realizing that these things come up because they are lessons. It's a way to wake you up.
Mariel Hemingway
#23. Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide.
Thomm Quackenbush
#24. Realizing he doesn't have any clothes on, James does a covert ninja move to retrieve his boxer shorts and is caught mid-roll as Penny emerges from the bathroom.
Ann Benjamin
#25. To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified assholes means you've grown up.
Crystal Woods
#27. I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
Agnes Martin
#28. We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest.
Oscar Romero
#29. I never want to repeat myself. I can't imagine anything else as upsetting as realizing I'm redoing something I did before. For some reason, when it comes to film, I'm very good at not repeating myself. Even though in the rest of my life, I'm constantly repeating my mistakes.
Doug Liman
#30. The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
Sharon Salzberg
#31. This was unintentional."
It became something more without noticing. Without realizing. "Am I a mistake - "
"No, myshka. You're just the unexpected, beautiful thing in my life.
Krista Ritchie
#32. Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.
Martha Beck
#33. Marriages are so complicated that no one person is the culprit. But, I am really interested in class without really realizing that I am. It's more the manifestations of different classes that interest me.
Nicole Holofcener
#34. The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.
Chuck Palahniuk
#35. My friend Joseph Goldstein, one of the finest vipassana teachers I know, likens this shift in awareness to the experience of being fully immersed in a film and then suddenly realizing that you are sitting in a theater watching a mere play of light on a wall.
Sam Harris
#36. I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays ...
Carmen Laforet
#38. A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and elaboration, and that a dull and obvious remark would be almost physically hurtful.
Christopher Hitchens
#39. The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was a kid I was constantly cleaning and organizing things - my toys, my sister's cosmetics.
Jayma Mays
#40. One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
Anna Quindlen
#41. This is why I have trust issues.
-A girl realizing her shampoo will never make her look like the model in the advertisement
Julie Johnson
#42. Many people believe they have found the key to Heaven's gate, not realizing that there is no key hole. It is a barrier upon which you must knock. And I believe that it is by our small and simple acts of kindness that we find the gate left ajar.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#43. May be it took realizing that you could die to keep you from wanting to do it.
Jodi Picoult
#45. Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.
Patricia Arquette
#46. One kind of person is engaged in society without realizing it; another kind engages in society by controlling it. The one is a gear, a cog, and the other an engineer, a driver. But a person who has opted out has only his ability to express his disengagement between his existence and nothingness.
John Fowles
#47. People quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression ...
John Geddes
#48. I used to doubt the existence of angels, not realizing they were men and women walking among us.
Dannika Dark
#49. I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it, to make an appointment, to give themselves an exam.
Giuliana Rancic
#50. Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.
Marianne Williamson
#51. He was realizing how cheap are the principles for which we do not have to fight, how easy it is to establish codes when all the while our freedom to talk had been fought and bled for by others.
Louis L'Amour
#52. I'll get you, you clique-y sons of bitches, I thought. You know what? I never did get them. I'm just realizing now. I should totally still get them.
Mindy Kaling
#53. I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself.
James Agee
#54. This is the part where they try to make you remember," said Sadie. She looked at my wrists. "Is it working?" Without realizing it, I'd pushed one sleeve of my pajamas up and was rubbing the gauze that circled my wrist. I stopped, and let the sleeve fall back where it was.
Michael Thomas Ford
#55. A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.
Clint Eastwood
#56. Realizing that your emotions and experiences aren't yours alone is one of the great powers of reading.
Cara Nicoletti
#57. All around you, production must be taking place to bring you closer to realizing your defined success. Adopt a personal responsibility attitude to enable the realization of your dreams.
Archibald Marwizi
#58. Marriage is the strangest thing. Almost without realizing it, I feel as if our lives and our hearts became knitted together.
Sylvain Reynard
#59. What artists have accomplished is realizing there's only a small amount of stuff that's important and then seeing what it was.
Mitchell Feigenbaum
#60. The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer ... and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it.
Irving Thalberg
#61. In 1759, the great lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson wrote: 'Advertisements are now so numerous they are very negligently perused.' An opinion many people express to this day, without realizing its centuries-old ancestry.
Winston Fletcher
#62. Nora, I believe life's like a good book. Time makes up the pages that will be your story. Every time your life changes, you start a new chapter. To me, there's nothing more depressing than someone getting to the end of their days and realizing they've only written one long, boring passage.
Elizabeth Isaacs
#63. She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.
Steve Martin
#64. We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought ... We are required to see the universe with new eyes, and it is because it makes such demands and also holds out the promise of realizing them, that the study of science is so supremely worth while.
J. W. N. Sullivan
#65. The awakening is finally realizing that you are a part of God, like a single cell that finally sees it is a part of you.
L.J. Vanier
#66. Most people, without consciously realizing it, absorb a great deal of psychic energy from the people they casually associate with, and even a greater amount from people with whom they have strong emotional connections.
Frederick Lenz
#67. Cooper was halfway out of his chair with realizing he'd moved, his body on full combat alert. His mind spinning,
Marcus Sakey
#68. Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.
Madeleine Albright
#69. Realizing that you are in love is itself a beautiful feeling ... And there is nothing like one-sided love or both-sided love. Love is simply love. Celebrate this feeling
Anamika Mishra
#70. Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain without realizing what is painful.
Frans De Waal
#71. It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer.
Tori Amos
#72. She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.
B. Barmanbek
#73. We Christians are secure, realizing that even our failures and our sins are under His control.
Alistair Begg
#74. I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.
Jodi Picoult
#75. By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.
Leo Strauss
#76. If you wait until all of your own issues are gone before helping others, it will never happen. This is a trap that millions have fallen into, not realizing that our own sanctification happens as we minister to others.
Francis Chan
#77. Sometimes,' he starts, 'the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.
Rebecca Serle
#78. There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.
David Heinemeier Hansson
#79. Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.
Maya Angelou
#80. And I would sit there, smiling stupidly and realizing they had no idea how rare and lucky they were, and realizing further that this ignorance of their great good fortune could well be the whole trick of achieving it in the first place.
Ron Currie Jr.
#81. We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
Pope John Paul II
#82. Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby changing the situation in the direction of structural improvements.
Max Wertheimer
#83. She was thirteen T-years older than he, but there was something uncannily familiar about his emotions where she was concerned. Somehow, without realizing it was happening, she'd acquired a MacGuiness with a gun, and she suspected her life would never be quite the same again. She
David Weber
#84. Sometimes we make duaa for a door of dunya. When it doesn't open, we cry. Not realizing that Allah has instead opened a door of jennah for us.
Yasmin Mogahed
#85. A willingness to lose one's self in a story was the first step to learning compassion, to appreciating other cultures, to realizing what possibilities the world held for people who kept at life despite the odds.
Jo-Ann Mapson
#86. We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.
Sergey Brin
#87. It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place,
James Cameron
#88. All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
#89. I met death for the last time realizing that he, the creature I called, it because I did not want to believe came for me... Collecting.
Jessica Reader
#90. One writes things and the implications shriek- it's like suddenly realizing one's deaf.
John Fowles
#91. Before we can change the world, we have to change ourselves. We can do it by focusing, concentrating, meditating, and self-realizing.
Debasish Mridha
#92. In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.
Lynn Johnston
#93. Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.
John C. Maxwell
#94. I feel like it's such an exercise in, like, several things to read a ton of 'Cosmo's or 'Glamour's or whatever, all at once. Because you start realizing how they're just talking about nothing for many pages, and they sort of lull you into this hypnotic state.
Megan Amram
#95. In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do..
Cesar Chavez
#96. One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real.
Iyanla Vanzant
#97. Perhaps learning to speak is realizing, little by little, that we can say nothing about anything.
Valeria Luiselli
#98. Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn't.
Lucille Ball
#99. I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.
Vivienne Westwood
#100. If you want your life to be a magnificent story
Then begin by realizing that you are the author
And everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page
Mark Houlahan
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