Top 28 Realizations In Life Quotes
#1. One of the most painful realizations in life, is to all of a sudden discover that you had possessed things all along, that you were busy looking for somewhere else.
Sunday Adelaja
#2. His inconsistency. His inability to finish anything. His sudden terrifying feelings that nothing he did mattered. His realizations that what went on in the outside world had more substance than anything in his life.
Lydia Davis
#3. To think you can just go out and help people and somehow get a better life is not reincarnation as I know it. A better life comes from being happy and inner realizations. Now if helping others adds to that, well then, it's great.
Frederick Lenz
#4. I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#5. Elend started. "Vin!" Then, he smiled. "What took you so long?"
"I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god," she said. "Now hustle.
Brandon Sanderson
#7. One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.
Steve Maraboli
#8. He was free-free to choose to swing from a tree for the afternoon rather than mend fences or train horses. He was free to live.
Elizabeth Michels
#9. It's shocking to note how close we play to unwelcome realizations, and yet how our ongoing ignorance makes so much of life possible.
Richard Ford
#10. In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
Alan Perlis
#11. Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.
Diane Meier
#12. Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn't see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least expected it.
Donna Freitas
#13. I've been offered proof of God's existence at regular intervals in my life through experiences so profound they've given goose bumps to atheists.
Jennifer Skiff
#14. But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.
Peter F. Hamilton
#15. The thing was, the places of your life, like the clothes you wore and the car you drove and the friends and associates you had, were a product of the way you lived.
J.R. Ward
#16. I got involved in music because I love everything about it, but now I'm in it you see the other side and it isn't much fun. Not as glamorous and enjoyable as you imagine.
Gary Numan
#17. I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.
M. Ageyev
#18. ...The lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love.
The first thing you should know is that everyone lies. The second thing is that it matters.
Carla Buckley
#20. What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.
Frederick Lenz
#21. There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge ... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Denis Diderot
#22. In our case, the law really was blind; in its mistreatment of women, it knew no religion, race or creed.
Azar Nafisi
#23. We only betray ourselves. No one is betrayed except by himself. One way to betray yourself is to try to be too many people at once.
"How many people should a person try to be in your opinion?"
One at the most. Most people don't even succeed in that.
MacDonald Harris
#24. Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is ... or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that's what I see when I look back at my life. An accumulation of everything I went through.
Bhaskaryya Deka
#25. ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.
James Salter
#26. Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically revising our philosophy of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise.
Charles Bates
#27. You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim of prayer; turning away from God to seek states of mind, and trying to produce those states of mind by 'maistry'.
C.S. Lewis
#28. Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.
Margaret J. Wheatley
