When We Realize Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Ronald Anthony Cross

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

R.v.m.

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Shane Claiborne

#13. 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

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

Dennis Weaver

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Mary Augusta Ward

#24. 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

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

Russell M. Nelson

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

Tullian Tchividjian

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

William Rotsler

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

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

Sudeep Nagarkar

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

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

Rachel Aaron

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

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

Brene Brown

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. We need each other more then some people think, their behavior is like a shadow from themselves in a dream, they will realize this when one day wake up, together strong, United unbeatable.

Jan Jansen

#57. Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.

Larry Bucshon

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. Throughout my whole life money has always been a problem. But I didn't realize that we were poor when we were kids!

Charlyne Yi

#61. When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

Justin Rosenstein

#62. The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.

John Templeton

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

Dillon Burroughs

#64. Some of our problems may be frustrating, but when looked at closely, we realize how lucky we are to have such problems.

Charles F. Glassman

#65. One of the things I noticed is that people really change when they realize their expiration date is coming, and they know what it is. Most of us don't: we just hope we can live as long as we can and do as much good as we can.

Justin Baldoni

#66. In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic.

Malcolm Gladwell

#67. As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.

Tom Brady

#68. It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

Bill Gates

#69. Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

Ava DuVernay

#70. When we see the brain we realize that we are, at one level, no more than meat; and, on another, no more than fiction.

Paul Broks

#71. Perhaps we have been guilty of speaking against someone and have not realized how it may have hurt them. Then when someone speaks against us, we suddenly realize how deeply such words hurt, and we become sensitive to what we have done.

Theodore Epp

#72. Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us.

Ezra Taft Benson

#73. The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Victor Hugo

#74. When we will think deeply, then we will realize that enjoyment is short lasting and reality of it is suffering.

Bhakti Charu Swami

#75. When the best we can do is to call ourselves the least worst, it should be taken as a sign that we are much worse than we might realize.

Mattathias Schwartz

#76. Sometimes, I think ... people we put on pedestals ... they've got that much further to fall when you realize they're human.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#77. My wife, Bojana, is a doctor; we both work intense hours and have months when we barely see each other. It isn't easy, but we realize nobody said it was supposed to be!

Michael Weatherly

#78. We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

Henry David Thoreau

#79. We are kindred spirits, you and I ... One day you will realize you don't have to fight your nature. You can live your life freely ... I want to be there when that happens.

T.T. Escurel

#80. When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.

E. O. Wilson

#81. There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.

Eugene Ionesco

#82. When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know?

Jewel

#83. This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

Frederick William Robertson

#84. Everyone knows that banks take in deposits and lend out money, but they don't always realize that when banks lend, they actually create money. We call that money credit.

Edward E. Baptist

#85. Human tendency is to make mountains out of molehills. Yet when we examine our problems ... we realize it's how we look at them ... that really makes the difference.

Timothy Pina

#86. When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#87. Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the water, we are destroying mother nature and that's a violent act. If we don't first and foremost come to some peaceful terms, none of us are going to be able to survive.

Cathy Hughes

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

Socrates

#89. I used to think the life strands of my friends frayed around me, because mine was too strong. Now I realize that when we are wound together, we make something unbreakable. Something that lasts long after this life ends. My

Pierce Brown

#90. We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.

Malala Yousafzai

#91. Apparently we always think we want choice, but when we actually get it, we may not like it. Meanwhile, the need to chose in ever more aspects of life causes us more distress than we realize.

Barry Schwartz

#92. When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)

Pema Chodron

#93. 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

#94. We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service.

Theodore Roosevelt

#95. One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#96. 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

#97. We have to realize what we are. The range of what is human is vast, ranging from the saintly to the monstrous. When we speak of other human beings as if they somehow do not belong to our species, we ignore the reality of our very nature.

Steve Hagen

#98. 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

#99. We're all here for a limited amount of time, and life is difficult - not unfair, but difficult. The key is to really confront our fears because when we do, and when we look at them, we really begin to realize that we are capable of handling them.

Bernie Siegel

#100. Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

George Carlin