When We Realize Quotes

#1. It puts things into perspective when we realize that people can live without the luxuries we grow accustomed to having.

Frankie Rayder

#2. We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.

Confucius

#3. When we realize we have the responsibility to teach the word, it changes everything about how we hear the Word.

David Platt

#4. There is a transcendent awareness, a Big Mind, a Big Heart, present and readily accessible to each and every one of us. When we realize it, we see it is the source of true peace, happiness, satisfaction, courage and joy.

Dennis Merzel

#5. When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#6. I have this dream that, secretly, all teenage girls feel exactly like me. And maybe one day, when we realize that we all feel the same, we can all stop pretending we're something we're not...

Zoe Sugg

#7. When we realize that we are both wretched and beautiful, we are freed up to see others the same way.

Shane Claiborne

#8. I realize we lose our innocence in many ways, the most painful being when we realize those who are supposed to love us and care for us more than anything, really care for themselves and their own pleasures more. It's painful because it makes you realize how alone you really are.

V.C. Andrews

#9. When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

Dennis Weaver

#10. The rich people are doing well but regular people suffer. We'll all be better off when we realize that we're part of one big family.

CeCe Winans

#11. What's gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize we're all One? ... You can see why the government's cracking down.

Bill Hicks

#12. When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. At other times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out of you is probably it.

Peter McWilliams

#13. Happiness is there when we realize what we have and learn to appreciate it.

Debasish Mridha

#14. When we realize that human beings are entering the world constantly and that each being is stamped at the first complete breath with the planetary pattern then in the sky, everyone must necessarily be different from everybody else.

Max Heindel

#15. When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.

Russell M. Nelson

#16. I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#17. When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.

Shunryu Suzuki

#18. When we realize how little we mean to the universe, we realize how important we are to each other

Tom DeLonge

#19. The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.

Tullian Tchividjian

#20. When we walk with the Lord, the dark is actually a place we can never fully be. The unknown is not so frightening when we realize that our all-knowing God is in it. We know Him. And once we experience His light in the midst of darkness, our darkness will never be the same.

Stormie O'martian

#21. Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.

Cecelia Ahern

#22. How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

William Rotsler

#23. Wisdom is the understanding that God exist, and that he is the creator of all life and things in the universe and upon Earth. This is truth. When we realize mistakes we have made, we should make serious efforts to correct them. This also, is truth.

Ellen J. Barrier

#24. The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.

Thomas Merton

#25. Self-forgiveness comes when we realize that if God has forgiven us, we needn't remain angry with ourselves, needn't hate ourselves any longer. God will use it all for good.

Robert Morgan

#26. There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.

Brian Van Reet

#27. When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.

Paul David Washer

#28. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.

Joyce Giraud

#29. Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Hu Shih

#30. When we realize that the strength of the Infinite is our strength and that the strength of the Infinite is limitless, we must come to the conclusion that we are capable of doing anything that the living of a great life may demand.

Christian D. Larson

#31. Self-preservation is the fundamental motive of the passions, according to Spinoza; but self-preservation alters its character when we realize that what is real and positive in us is what unites us to the whole, and not what preserves the appearance of separateness.

Anonymous

#32. Time. It takes control over us and when we realize this, it's often too late. That's again the power of time. See? It's sort of a vicious circle. Take control of your precious time and live life to the fullest.

Tessa Vanluchene

#33. Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.

Simon Sinek

#34. We stop looking for monsters under our beds when we realize they are inside us.

Charles Darwin

#35. When we realize every moment is sacred, we understand that every footstep is sacred, too.

Molly Friedenfeld

#36. We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is.

Anis Mojgani

#37. We start trying to be wise when we realize that we are not born knowing how to live, but that life is a skill that has to be acquired,

Alain De Botton

#38. When we change, the world changes. The key to all change is in our inner transformation- a change of our hearts and minds. This is human revolution. We all have the power to change. When we realize this truth, we can bring forth that power anywhere, anytime, and in any situation.

Daisaku Ikeda

#39. When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets.

William Beebe

#40. we dismiss vulnerability as weakness only when we realize that we've confused feeling with failing and emotions with liabilities.

Brene Brown

#41. When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives .

Jen Hatmaker

#42. There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.

John Green

#43. ...joy we find when we realize God's deep desire to partner with everyday, normal people using their talents to do good.

Chris Marlow

#44. When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it's easy to stay silent.

Robert Walser

#45. When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.

Dillon Burroughs

#46. When we realize the truth that every creation is an individualized portion of the Creator and we are always one with It then we are ready to live in harmony.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#47. Nothing else but seeing God in everything can make us loving and patient with those who annoy us. When we realize that they are only the instruments for accomplishing His purpose in our lives, we will actually be able to thank them [inwardly] for the blessings they bring us.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#48. We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one.

Tom Hiddleston

#49. When we realize and embrace the Lord's will for us, we will love to do it. We won't want to do anything else. It's a passion.

Franklin Graham

#50. When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

Derrick Jensen

#51. Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change.

Achim Steiner

#52. When we realize the everlasting truth of "everything changes" and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.

Shunryu Suzuki

#53. Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

Shunryu Suzuki

#54. True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

#55. When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.

J.D. Greear

#56. It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

P.D. Ouspensky

#57. Every one of us commits a fatal mistake sometime in his life. When we realize it, the damage is already done

Agota Kristof

#58. In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.

Sharon Salzberg

#59. We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

Lev Grossman

#60. When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.

David Platt

#61. Intuition is a powerful tool that can heal the painful split we all feel between our earthly, mundane selves and our divine, eternal selves. When we realize that our spiritual knowledge is in us right now, and always has been, we become filled with light, light-hearted, and enlightened.

Penney Peirce

#62. A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

Ralph W. Sockman

#63. I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.

Sam Keen

#64. She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.

Sophie Kinsella

#65. Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not.

Daniel Gilbert

#66. A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

Laozi

#67. When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?" "Yes, Your Majesty," he said meekly.

Megan Whalen Turner

#68. When we first come to faith in Christ, we often think it was simply of our own choosing. Only later do we realize we would have never taken that step of faith apart from His grace drawing us near to Him.

Dillon Burroughs

#69. When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

Ronald Anthony Cross

#70. We will find true peace only when we learn to see that there is no difference among ourselves, realize that we are different manifestations of one, and we love each other as brother and sister.

Debasish Mridha

#71. How then can we change being? By applying the knowledge of the Work through self-observation to ourselves. And remember that you do not change by being told what to do. You only change through seeing what you have to do when you realize what your being is like.

Maurice Nicoll

#72. Oh my God, the luxuries we have in America. We just don't even realize because you live in it long enough and you come to expect it, but when you get to take a step outside of it you really, really get to recognize how blessed we are and how much we have.

Lindsey McKeon

#73. Life is not a Race to Chase, but we realize it only when Death comes face-to-face.-RVM

R.v.m.

#74. When we get rid of our ego, we stop doing things to impress others, we stop trying to cling to the idea of ourselves and we realize that we are a part of the natural world. This realization will give us the perspective that is greatly needed to improve the state of our society.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#75. Working together in concert more smoothly not only helps us move more quickly; it changes the nature of what we can undertake. When we have the confidence that we can orchestrate the group effort required to realize them, we dare bigger dreams.

Justin Rosenstein

#76. The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.

John Templeton

#77. We all get so caught up in our day-to-day lives and have so many gripes. But when you see the way others live and how they make the best of it, you'll realize how lucky you are.

Kristin Davis

#78. We do a lot of talking with our mouths, but we don't necessarily realize the signals we give out physically with our body posture when we're talking to people.

Andrew Stone

#79. When we meet God in the gospel, we first encounter him as a stranger, come to rescue us from a danger we did not even realize we were in.

Michael S. Horton

#80. Wrestling is like any form of drama or pretty much any form of entertainment - some people understand this about forms of entertainment really intuitively when they're younger, and others would have to be really not very intelligent for a long time until we realize that every human mood is an art.

John Darnielle

#81. We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

Mary Augusta Ward

#82. We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.

Walter Rauschenbusch

#83. When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#84. It's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked only when the government was very strong, when the West ruled the world, relatively speaking.

Grace Lee Boggs

#85. I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.

Apolo Ohno

#86. I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness.

Sung Kang

#87. Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father and how familiar His face is to us.

Ezra Taft Benson

#88. We must realize that we have a choice. We are responsible for our own good time ... When you do something you are proud of, dwell on it a little, praise yourself for it, relish the experience, take it in.

David Berkowitz

#89. We know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little anxiety ... By protecting people from risk, we destroy their self-esteem. We rob them of the opportunity to become strong, competent people.

Judith M Bardwick

#90. When you try to inoculate yourself from the pain, you end up inoculating yourself from the love and you need the love to thrive. You have to be willing to realize that people hurt people - good or bad, it's just what we do.

Michelle N. Onuorah

#91. When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it.

John Polkinghorne

#92. It's amazing how much power each of us has when it comes to how we make other people feel about themselves. Whether we realize it or not, we have the ability to affect and shape people, for better or for worse. I hope I never abuse my power.

Krista Doyle

#93. We stay like that for a while. No one tries to analyze it or offer solutions. No one interrupts. Sometimes, momentarily, I'm embarrassed by the whole disclosure, but I realize that I trust these people and I don't know how or when that happened.

Melina Marchetta

#94. Sometimes, we play with love, but when you finally realize that you want to get serious, love plays with you.

Sudeep Nagarkar

#95. When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning?

Paul David Washer

#96. It is when we finally realize the futility of violence and the invalidity of war will we, the people of this world finally wake up!

Avijeet Das

#97. Sometimes the price of doing the right thing is higher than we realize when we do it.

Rachel Aaron

#98. When are we going to realize that hating other women - no matter how much money they have or how far they've fallen - is just as bad for ourselves as it is for anyone else?

Jessica Valenti

#99. What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.

Agnes Meyer Driscoll

#100. When I study and ponder moral agency and its eternal consequences, I realize that we are truly spirit children of God and therefore should act accordingly.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf