Realizing Life Quotes

#1. Being mature means realizing life is filled with dark days,too.

V.C. Andrews

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Realize you are worthy of your life and live accordingly.

Gary Zukav

#8. 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

#9. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Eckhart Tolle

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.

Michael Beckwith

#15. At the crossroad in my life, I didn't know which way to go. I just mindlessly choose a random direction... then, after regretting my decision I tried to retrace my steps. However, without even realizing it the sun had already set.

Nobuyuki Fukumoto

#16. Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

Stacy Peralta

#17. MY TOUGHEST MATCH; is not on the mat. It's at the dinner table and it's at fast food restaurants. It's hearing about the party I can Never go to. It's realizing being a Great Wrestler isn't a sport, It's a LIFE.

Stephen Neal

#18. You go through life doing all the things everyone else wants you to do, and you'll wake up one day realizing your life's passed you by and you've got a list of stuff you've never gotten to do.

Charlie Donlea

#19. The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Bruce Barton

#20. As you go through life you realize that the love that you have for the people in your life and their love for you is all that matters. It's really about how you regard them and how they regard you.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#21. One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.

Chris Tucker

#22. By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.

Emmett Kelly

#23. Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal:

Frederick Lenz

#24. Listening to South Korean television was like looking in the mirror for the first time in your life and realizing you were unattractive.

Barbara Demick

#25. We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

Barbara Johnson

#26. Aside from these infrequent outbursts he possesses the gentle demeanor that sometimes trails the newly sober, that deep acceptance that comes with realizing how badly you'd fucked up your life.

Nick Flynn

#27. But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever
only now do I realize it.

Natalia Ginzburg

#28. We create our own destiny, but notwithstanding an occasional trip down the wrong path. The key is realizing when it's the wrong path and having the courage to do a little backtracking until you are back on the road to the life you were meant to live.

Books

#29. When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.

Billy Crystal

#30. The more I accomplish the more I realize how empty my life is.

Behdad Sami

#31. THE DOWNFALL OF ambition is sometimes letting life pass you by and only realizing it did so after the fact.

Claire Contreras

#32. That goodness is what survives death, a fundamental goodness that is in each and every one of us. The whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training toward realizing it.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#33. We wonder what true happiness would be like. Not realizing that one simple thought connected to our hearts can make the difference between us wondering and experiencing it.

Monica Dumont

#34. People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they're talking to one another across a distance, each from an observation post standing in a different place in time.

Milan Kundera

#35. I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

Richard Bach

#36. If we are to begin to try and understand life as it will be in 1960,
we must begin by realizing that food, clothing and shelter will cost
as little as air

John Langdon-Davies

#37. Sometimes even feeling bad feels good. Negative emotions can feel so familiar (especially if they mimic our past) as to actually be comforting. Awareness is realizing that our life could always be better. Growth is doing what it takes to make it better ...

Danielle LaPorte

#38. Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.

Atul Purohit

#39. Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

Mahatma Gandhi

#40. Life lesson that sucks? Giving advice is way easier than living your own life. Life lesson that sucks worse? Realizing this after you've severely fucked up.

Kristen Callihan

#41. Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery. Those trapped in the bland middle region of respectability are lost without ever realizing it.

John O'Donohue

#42. All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.

Alice Walker

#43. I married my wife and she brought these two amazing kids into my life, and we were realizing, God there's nothing out there in fiction about blended families.

Jeff Probst

#44. Unfortunately, I am also just now realizing that I've only been going along with society all my life, and that I never thought the matter through for myself, until now.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#45. At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.

Ram Dass

#46. Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

Brit Marling

#47. There's nothing like realizing that you don't have much time left to stimulate your appreciation for the moments of your life.

Ruth Ozeki

#48. I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

Tracy Austin

#49. So get on with life, with love, with service - fully realizing that God already has the perfect service he requires of us in his Son and now our neighbor needs our imperfect help.

Michael S. Horton

#50. It's amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they're doing. I've learned to take notice of those things and if it's something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

Joyce Meyer

#51. We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

Terence McKenna

#52. A big marker in my life was realizing you could record sound: I liked to make little recordings and then go back and listen to them. It becomes something outside of you then and you can listen to it objectively.

Josh Garrels

#53. Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint on future human action consciously and slowly while realizing that they are likely to continue for generations after one is gone.

Frederick Buell

#54. What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.

Ethel Waters

#55. We must live a genuine life in order to discover personal happiness and self-fulfillment. Understanding that a person is living a lie is the first step into realizing what is possible. No matter how frightful such a proposition is, we must dare to be an original self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#56. We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Edith Schaeffer

#57. It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.

Wilson Flagg

#58. So far from realizing philosophy, the spectacle philosophizes reality, and turns the material life of everyone into a universe of speculation.

Guy Debord

#59. From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#60. Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.

Aldous Huxley

#61. Our true joy is like those sunglasses we've been looking for all over, suddenly realizing they've been propped on our head during our entire search. They're already there, quietly waiting for us to reach up and realize they were never lost at all.

Kelly Corbet

#62. Such a funny thing, time. You spend your whole life wishing there was more or less of it, never realizing that the time already given could be worth more than that which you wished for." -Davina

Moryah DeMott

#63. I look for a thematic idea running through my movies and I see that it's the outsider struggling for recognition. I realize that all my life I've been an outsider, and above all, being lonely but never realizing it.

Martin Scorsese

#64. If you spend long enough realizing a character in your book, congratulations, you've made a friend for life.

Michael R. French

#65. There are certain things in life that just suck. Pouring a big bowl of Lucky Charms before realizing the milk is expired, the word 'moist,' falling face-first into the salad bar in front of the entire lacrosse team ...

Lauren Morrill

#66. In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.

Leland Stanford

#67. Experience in itself wasn't enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I'd missed it.

Sarah Manguso

#68. Aloneness, like life, becomes more interesting when you realize it's a present.

Gwen Davis

#69. Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood, rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is all like a monkey grasping at the moon reflected in the water.

Shoitsu Omatsu

#70. It's realizing that a great dream is not as good as a great memory. The dream can be had by anyone. The memory - must be made.

Eric Thomas

#71. Growing up means realizing that no time of one's life is the best one, and resolving to savor every second of joy within reach. You know each will pass, and you no longer experience that as betrayal.

Susan Neiman

#72. happiness isn't about the events going on in your life; it's about how you handle them. It's about falling down and standing up straighter than you did before. It's about realizing that nothing comes easy.

Jodie Sweetin

#73. I think part of making any decision in your twenties is realizing there is no twenty-four flavor table. It's a myth.

Meg Jay

#74. How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

Robert Breault

#75. If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.

Eric Ludy

#76. So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.

Henrik Ibsen

#77. You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

Robert Breault

#78. It is not until you awaken and become fully present that you will realize that you have not been present. It is not until you awaken that you will realize you have been asleep, dreaming that you are awake.

Leonard Jacobson

#79. Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#80. Realizing your true self apart from the mind-created ego self is profoundly liberating, and when you do, suddenly the universe appears immensely blissful.

Rajeev Kurapati

#81. Finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow.

Robin Hobb

#82. Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Frank A. Clark

#83. The Christian life is what you do when you realize that you can do nothing.

Mike Erre

#84. So every year when Christmas comes, I realize a new, the best gift life can offer is having friends like you.

Helen Steiner Rice

#85. I think the biggest shift has been in realizing how much more we are creating our life than we realize. That was sort of the epiphany to me.

Lauren Bowles

#86. When you have lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad
well, that's when you realize you'll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first.

Judy Garland

#87. I'm realizing that for so much of my life I had an older viewpoint; I saw things as an older person. That's common among change-of-life babies. So I have this dichotomy where I'm either, like, super young or feel like I'm coming to the end of my years.

John Travolta

#88. If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.

Frederick Lenz

#89. Happiness is a by-product. It is not a primary product of life. It is a thing which you suddenly realize you have because you're so delighted to be doing something which perhaps has nothing whatever to do with happiness.

Robertson Davies

#90. This journey of life is about realizing our inherent wholeness. It has nothing to do with perfecting anything

Renae A. Sauter

#91. One of life's greatest lessons is realizing you can't have something for nothing.

Anna Staniszewski

#92. Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.

Earl G. Graves, Sr.

#93. The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#94. There is nothing I love more than helping someone realize how corrupt our food system is and them making great changes in their own life because of it.

Kristin Cavallari

#95. The vast majority of people are born, grow up, struggle and go through life in misery and failure, not realizing that it would be just as easy to switch over and get exactly what they want out of life, not recognizing that the mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.

Napoleon Hill

#96. She wondered which would be worse -- to belong to the group assigned to lifelong drudgery, or to be on the other side, thinking you deserved everything the universe by sheer good luck had tossed in your lap, never realizing your whole life was based on lies.

Jo Victor

#97. Are they changed because they want to go back to their old life, or is it because they're so depressed at realizing their old life was no better than what we have now?

James Dashner

#98. She was realizing for the first time in her life what agony it was to experience such unquiet beneath an impeccable veneer.

Anna Godbersen

#99. A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.

Alyssa Milano

#100. Dreams are the blueprints to the things we want. They never come to life if we don't put in the work to make them happen. Nothing you really want just falls into your lap. The obstacles in the way to realizing your dream tend to fall out of nowhere. Nobody wants those.

Bethany Bazile