Top 100 When You Finally Quotes
#1. When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for.
Alan Cohen
#2. By putting you into an enchanted sleep and allowing you to postpone the moment when you would have to think about what has happened tonight, I would do it. But I know better. Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. You
J.K. Rowling
#3. Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.
Stanley Kubrick
#4. What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?
Sarah Dessen
#5. The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally do it.
Steven Pressfield
#6. The harder something is to acquire, the more satisfying it is when you finally find it.
Wendy Mass
#7. You know those people you could go years without seeing and when you finally get together it felt like no time had passed? Hold on to those people.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#8. Happiness is when you finally connect your mind to your body.
Greg Plitt
#9. You just need that opening, that moment, when you finally decide to give yourself permission to change.
Tosca Reno
#10. You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
Charlie Parker
#11. That one person everyone looks for. They search and search, and some die trying to find 'em. And when you finally meet them, something inside of you says "Oh, there you are. I've been looking for you. And I didn't even know it.
Belle Aurora
#12. Fine, tell them who you think you are. Fine, tell them fine is what you are. And when you finally figure out what it is you need, you better think of me.
Sara Quin
#13. There is only one exit from the dream: gnosis (enlightenment). When you finally grasp that your existence has been one long dream, both public and private (waking and sleeping, across many different bodies and lifetimes), you transcend the dream. You
Mike Hockney
#14. You can recover the truth of what you really are. When you finally see yourself as you are, when you finally take responsibility for your creation, you will cleanse the lies from your own creation.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#15. If you wait for what your heart desires, you treasure it more when you finally do get it.
Lysa TerKeurst
#16. Hear this if you can:
If you want to reach him
You have to go beyond yourself
And when you finally arrive at the land of absence
Be silent
Don't say a thing
Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there
Rumi
#17. Seeking answers to questions is what draws us forward. When you have no more questions you live in the satisfaction of the present moment. You have no more questions when you finally learn that love is the answer. Love is always the answer.
Kate McGahan
#18. Maybe I still haven't become me. I don't know how you tell for sure when you finally have.
Emily M. Danforth
#19. She was approaching the hardest moment to be faced when separated from the one you love, the moment when you finally get used to your pain, and then, you are only half alive, because that pain meant you were still fully alive. It was a bleeding, gasping kind of life.
Irene Nemirovsky
#20. Don't ever give up on your dreams. When you finally stop chasing and grab hold, you can make great things happen. Let your determination take over, and you will be amazed at where it takes you. Your dreams are always within reach, as long as you believe.
Tessa Brookfield
#21. When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
Sam Ewing
#22. When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop ... even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.
Jodi Picoult
#23. My childhood was never great. We moved from place to place a lot. There were times when we had no definite place to stay. So, a basic level of security was not always there. Therefore, when you finally make it out, and you become who I am, you're humbled by the memories of those situations.
LeBron James
#24. When you finally meet the right one for you, it suddenly becomes clear why everyone else was so wrong.
Steve Maraboli
#25. Hereos. Idols. They're never who you think they are. Shorter. Nastier. Smellier. And when you finally meet them, there's something that makes you want to choke the shit out of them.
Paul Beatty
#26. Sometimes a book that appeared dull or off-putting would somehow still draw you in, call to you, and when you finally embarked on the adventure inside you found yourself partaking in something wondrous and unfathomably rich.
Liam W. Russell
#27. You will be amazed how much can change in your life when you finally begin to let go of what you can never have. All
Henry Cloud
#28. Grace isn't about having a second chance; grace is having so many chances that you could use them through all eternity and never come up empty. It's when you finally realize that the other shoe isn't going to drop, ever.
Shauna Niequist
#29. I'm a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside, Lieutenant." "Ah, repression," Keyes said. "Excellent. Try to avoid taking a potshot at me when you finally blow, please." "I can't promise anything, sir," Alan said.
John Scalzi
#30. To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.
Sylvester Stallone
#31. Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.
Audrey Niffenegger
#32. There is nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. When you've lost it all, that's when you finally realize that life is beautiful.
Nikki Sixx
#33. Because when you finally find the one against all odds, you give him your best and let the magic of the world carry the rest.
E. Mellyberry
#34. Your story needs to move people's spirits and build their goodwill, so that when you finally do ask them to buy from you, they feel like you've given them so much it would be almost rude to refuse.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#35. You have had a dream for so many years. Let today be the day you make a plan for it. Just think about how much more likely you are to hit your target when you finally aim at it.
Steve Maraboli
#36. There's a confidence you find when you finally feel right in your body.
Ariel Winter
#37. When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.
Mary J. Blige
#38. You always dream about being on a baseball card. It's kind of funny when you finally see it.
Alex Rodriguez
#39. You know you're officially an adult when you finally understand WHY Miss Hannigan was drinking bath water.
Christy Hall
#40. The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.
Nancy Garden
#41. Of all the questions I have asked my readers this is the most important: What would you do if you weren't afraid? When you finally give wings to that answer then you have found your life's purpose.
Shannon L. Alder
#42. Seeking answers to the questions is what draws us forward. When you have no more questions you can finally live in the satisfaction of the present moment. You have no more questions when you finally learn that love is always the answer.
Kate McGahan
#43. When you finally betray me, I hope you care enough to try to kill my yourself.
Drew Karpyshyn
#44. Isn't it ironic that the perfect moment for
them to admit that they need you in their
life is when you finally realize that you're
well off without them.
In other words,
the devil knows when you are getting close
to heaven.
Pierre Alex Jeanty
#45. It's because she doesn't love being lonely. When a girl loses her virginity, though, it may hurt, but it's real. It might be the realest, most private thing you could ever see in another person. You wonder who she'll be in that moment, when you finally get past all the pretend.
Joe Hill
#46. If you want to write a novel, be relentlessly relentless. Get ready for re-writes and rejections. But when you finally hold that book in your hand, well...get ready to rejoice!
Brigitte Quinn
#47. It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do -need to do- more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.
Sarah Dessen
#48. When you finally decide to face all your fears, then be assured that success is knocking at your door.
Jacinta Mpalyenkana
#49. It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know it's falling a little bit short. That's very hard, but then when you finally do it, it's very rewarding and the process is good too, I like working with people this way.
Steve Martin
#50. Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.
P. J. O'Rourke
#51. Pay off your student loan. Even if you don't have a job ... Because when you finally get a job you're going to be one of us.
Bill Cosby
#52. Everything will change in your life when you finally learn that you deserve SO MUCH BETTER
Karen Gibbs
#53. The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.
Lee Westwood
#54. To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that's pretty tough.
Junior Seau
#55. Because you're mine. You sealed the deal when you admitted it, when you finally let my cock slide into that tight pussy of yours.
Jessica Prince
#56. And if you find someone to make you feel that way, you need to hold on to it. Because if you don't, someone else will. Or it may be too late when you finally realize it.
R.D. Cole
#57. You only really knew who your true friends were when you were at your lowest with nothing to offer. After the smoke cleared, that was when you finally saw who was left standing beside you.
Sadie Allen
#58. Sometimes, we play with love, but when you finally realize that you want to get serious, love plays with you.
Sudeep Nagarkar
#59. When you finally come out, there's a pain that stops, and you know it will never hurt like that again, no matter how much you lose or how bad you die.
Paul Monette
#60. Because you are designed to want something that will hurt you. And you cannot help it ... cannot stop wanting it. It is in your design. And when you finally find it, this thing will burn you up. This thing will destroy you.
Daniel H. Wilson
#61. Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola
who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.
Chris Abani
#62. Life is all about that one day, when you finally decide to step up and do something which makes you happy, again.
Sarvesh Jain
#63. there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. You just gotta push through it no matter how dark it gets. That way, when you finally get out, you'll appreciate the sun so much more.
Shakela James
#65. That you gotta go after the things you want, because they might not be there when you finally pull your head out of your ass and realize they're important.
Elisabeth Naughton
#66. Spiritual pain is when you can't stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can't let go.
Shannon L. Alder
#67. Money ... those who don't have enough of it are only aware of what it can buy them. When you finally have enough of it you become aware- acutely aware-of all the things it can't buy ... the really important things, like youth, health, love, peace of mind.
F. Paul Wilson
#68. When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.
Ruth Gordon
#69. When you finally figure out what you really want, everything else pales in comparison.
Tammara Webber
#70. Most people are nice when you finally see them
Harper Lee
#71. When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.
Arthur C. Clarke
#72. It's so ironic - when you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.
Madhuri Dixit
#73. Sometimes when you want something for so long, you lose interest when you finally get it. "I
Natavia Stewart
#74. When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?
Rachel Cohn
#75. Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.
Hafez
#76. The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.
Douglas Kennedy
#77. It's amazing what eliminating energy drains can do to our mood. Remember how good you felt when you finally went through your closet and cleaned out the old clothes that you were sure you'd wear again someday?
Cheryl Richardson
#78. I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it's because you've ripped a hole in your skin.
Gillian Flynn
#79. Those final moments, while horrific in one sense, were intimate in another. Perhaps when you finally realized were beaten - that there really was no hope - something was triggered in the mind, allowing you to expunge, accept.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#80. Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.
Eric S. Raymond
#81. When you finally find the courage to admit you have a problem, that's when you have some power over it. That's the first step. Otherwise you're just withering away, you're like a burning piece of paper getting smaller and smaller.
Ryan Montgomery
#82. Holding onto anger is like carrying a bucket of poison. Every step you walk, it splashes onto yourself and others. When you finally reach the one who deserves it, you have poisoned yourself and many other innocent people.
Dean Henryson
#83. I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.
Sarah Dessen
#84. When you finally strip away all the material things in your house and closets, you realize how much time and money was spent wasted on things that you never really needed in the first place.
Simon Ruddy
#85. Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
J.K. Rowling
#86. Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?
Pete Seeger
#87. When you finally let go of the person you used to be, you get to discover the person you are now and the person you want to become.
Regina Brett
#88. I know how it feels when you want to illustrate an idea but you just don't know how to start. And when you finally grabbed the confidence to mark that paper but then it turned out really terrible that you don't want to show it to anyone.
John Davidson
#89. You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.
Chuck Yeager
#90. I thought when you finally kissed me, I'd be able to walk away." He shook his head, his voice lowering to a throaty whisper. "I was dead wrong.
Lisa Kessler
#91. Your life will change for the better when you finally accept and deal with the fact that you have a chronic attraction to poisonous people. Face it. Fight it. Defeat it. Setting a better standard shapes a better life.
Steve Maraboli
#92. You know you've officially hit a midlife crisis when you finally start feeling like you have your life together and your body starts falling apart!
Tanya Masse
#93. Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.
Mary Higgins Clark
#94. Atticus, he was real nice."
"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
Harper Lee
#95. If love were easy, it wouldn't feel like magic when you finally got it right.
Linda Yellin
#96. When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.
Reese Witherspoon
#97. When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
Winona Ryder
#98. Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices stay in their envelopes, you're making matters worse. When you finally have to deal with the problem - believe me, you will eventually - it will be exaggerated because you didn't take action.
Jean Chatzky
#99. It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.
David Letterman
#100. As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.
Sarah Strohmeyer
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