Top 100 When You Realize Quotes
#1. There are moments, when you're getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you've known your whole life.
Leah Raeder
#2. When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.
Byron Katie
#3. When You've lost it all ... thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful.
Nikki Sixx
#4. Here's to the moments when you realize the simple things are wonderful and enough.
Jill Badonsky
#5. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao-Tzu
#6. There is an hour when you realize: Here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time
Carol Oates
#7. You become a cop and they teach you about protecting people and keeping them safe. But they don't tell you how it rips your heart out when you realize you can't do it. You can't save everybody.
Tere Michaels
#8. He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.
When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#9. In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.
William S. Burroughs
#10. I'm left doing all the unskilled labor myself, which is exactly when you realize there's nothing unskilled about labor.
Colin Cotterill
#11. Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.
Claire Messud
#12. And this is the worse part of it - when you realize that what separates you, someone who can leave, from someone who is trapped in Aleppo, or Homs or Douma or Darayya, is that you can walk away and go back to your home with electricity and sliced bread; then you begin to feel ashamed to be human.
Janine Di Giovanni
#13. When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good.
Rhonda Byrne
#14. When you realize who the good people are in your life, you're so lucky.
Sophia Bush
#15. SNEAK AROUND IN LIFE
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TIP TOE
THE SPIRITUAL WOOD FLOORS CREAK
LOUDER AND LOUDER NO MATTER HOW HARD
YOU TRY SNEAK IN SILENCE.
THAT'S WHEN YOU REALIZE ...
"SNEAKING IS NOISY"
AND S.I.N IS LOUD!!!!
Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
#16. You can transcend all negativity when you realize that the only power it has over you is your belief in it. As you experience this truth about yourself you are set free.
Eileen Caddy
#17. When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.
John C. Maxwell
#18. When you realize you would consider not having a child just so you could take an occasional snooze and be available to see Batman Retires the same weekend it comes out, you have to take a good hard look at yourself and acknowledge, I am a shallow, shallow person.
Paul Reiser
#19. The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it.
W. J. T. Mitchell
#20. There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today that music is such a part of people's lives. And will always be, really.
Clive Davis
#21. Worry springs from not being convinced of a sovereign God's absolute love for you. Worry disappears when you realize that God loves you unfailingly and will let nothing interrupt His plans for your good.
J.D. Greear
#22. It is difficult to describe the moment when you realize the person you are is not the same as the person you must become to face the challenges before you.
Barbra Annino
#23. But sometimes the truth arrives on you, and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer
it's a question.
Markus Zusak
#24. It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.
Anita Diamant
#25. In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
Mother Teresa
#26. You stop viewing yourself as being "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. To quote Buddha: "Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable."
Ken Keyes Jr.
#27. It's really a whole new feeling when you realize you're in charge of your life, your thoughts, and your actions - or inaction.
Kaira Rouda
#28. When you realize how much women mistrust their sex, it makes you wonder how you could ever marry one ...
Dimitris Mita
Dimitris Mita
#29. When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.
David Hasselhoff
#30. There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors ...
Miguel De Icaza
#31. When you realize that he just is what he is, and that expecting him to be any better is like expecting the tide to roll back just because you want it to?
Lucy Holliday
#32. You do not say, "This is enlightenment," or "That is not right practice." Even in wrong practice, when you realize it and continue, there is right practice.
Shunryu Suzuki
#33. You know you are on the right spiritual track when you realize that doing the right thing is not something you should do; rather, it is something you want to do. It is even something you have to do for your own peace, and the well-being of others.
Shannon L. Alder
#34. That awkward moment right before you die when you realize you haven't done enough in life to be considered living." ~Peregrine Storke~
R.K. Ryals
#35. When you can see the stakes, when you realize the true purpose of your mission, it motivates you. It makes you focus. It makes you push away the distractions. You gain clarity of purpose. You gain strength.
Harlan Coben
#36. Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.
Mahbod Seraji
#37. That awkward moment when you realize someone was actually home the whole time you were singing on the tops of your lungs.
Kasey Collin P. Dumdum
#38. When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.
Don Piper
#39. When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.
Rihanna
#40. There comes a moment when you realize what matters the most in your life. Let that moment be now and that matter be your love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#41. You have two lives. The second one begins when you realize you only have one.
Confucius
#42. Be content with what you have and take joy in the way things are. When you realize you have all you need, the World belongs to you.
James Frey
#43. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I've had my share of mood swings, believe me. But it's a powerful thing when you realize that you have dominion over your behavior and your passions.
Matt Dillon
#44. If you can't afford the upkeep of your home, it makes no sense to do a reverse mortgage. You will just end up having to sell eventually when you realize you can't afford the home, and whether you have any equity left after the sale depends on the size of the reverse loan that must be settled.
Suze Orman
#45. If you make that decision, that you'll always follow that rule, then your commitment to do it sinks into your heart, and when you realize the benefits of having integrity time after time, it really changes your heart, not just your head.
Clayton Christensen
#46. I spent a lifetime giving my power away, assuming that everybody knew better what was right for me than me. And then there comes a point in your life you go, Oh, wait a second! There's an a-ha moment when you realize that the only person that can delegate your future is you.
Mariel Hemingway
#47. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Dalai Lama XIV
#48. There's always a little jump to your heart when you realize you've got looting.
Sarah Parcak
#49. High school for me was not all that fun. I think it's a lot more fun after when you realize that high school ends, and everything that's important at that time is sort of not important if people don't like your jeans or whatever. It doesn't matter.
Leighton Meester
#50. When you realize yourself as completely empty and devoid of all form ... this is wisdom, When you realize yourself as the fullness of love overflowing itself without object ... this is bliss, And when you are aware of yourself incarnate in the appearance of form ... this is leela.
Eli Jaxon-Bear
#51. And that's the moment when you realize that hopes and dreams are as fucked up as fairytales.
E.K. Blair
#52. When you realize who you are and why you're here, then peace will be there.
Debasish Mridha
#53. When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and the ego dissolves.
Frederick Lenz
#54. Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.
Frederick Lenz
#55. Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.
Dalai Lama
#56. I can't actually believe how good 'The Sopranos' is. I genuinely am dumbfounded by it. It's like when you realize how good The Beatles are, and you think, 'How did they do that?'
Martin Freeman
#57. 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
#58. That mini heart attack you have when you realize you tipped your chair back just a little too far.
John Steinbeck
#59. There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.
Jena Malone
#60. I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.
Marilyn Manson
#61. I think there comes a time when you realize that you need God in your life, God's Word, and the spiritual guidance that only He can give.
Sylvester Stallone
#62. When you realize your purpose, it brings understanding deep within you
Sunday Adelaja
#63. I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of.
Criss Jami
#64. When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met - how do I top that?
Jack O'Brien
#65. I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
Katherine Paterson
#66. [Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there.
Eckhart Tolle
#67. The Worst part of acting like a jerk isn't when you're doing it. Its when you realize you were.
Pete Wentz
#68. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.
Brian Tracy
#69. When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.
Johnny Depp
#70. Everybody has two lives. The first one starts when you are born. The second one starts when you realize that you only have one.
Anonymous
#71. When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body.
Melissa Etheridge
#72. When you realize how great you're then you start to understand how many options you got.
Bianca Frazier
#73. When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky
Gautama Buddha
#74. When you realize it's your responsibility to be a leader and create the world that you want to see, you have to do it.
Janelle Monae
#75. There are things you're just positive will happen to you. Then there's that second when you realize, Jesus Christ. Maybe they won't.
Jennifer Egan
#76. You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.
Zak Bagans
#77. When you struggle, that's when you realize what you're made of, and that's when you realize what the people around you can do. You learn who you'd want to take with you to a war, and who you'd only want to take to lunch.
Chamique Holdsclaw
#78. There's no new world, my friend, no New seas, no other planets, nowhere to flee - You're tied in a knot you can never undo When you realize Earth is a starship too." "Ahh,
Kim Stanley Robinson
#79. Yeah, I will. Why do you
care so much all of a sudden?"
Cade shrugged. "I don't have anything else to do. And like I said ... you and Lark and this ranch
are all I have. Makes you cling to things tighter when you realize how easy it is to lose them.
Maisey Yates
#80. When you realize that you're guilty of the same sins that others are, you realize that you shouldn't bear grudges against them, but you should forgive and love them instead.
Lois Tverberg
#81. That's when you realize you not only have no idea what you are doing, you also have no principles. You have become the "God help us if something happens to the President" Vice President.
Jim Gaffigan
#82. Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.
J.I. Packer
#83. When you realize that every breath is a gift from God. When you realize how small you are, but how much he loved you. That he, Jesus, would die, the son of God himself on earth, then you ... you just weep.
Angela Bassett
#84. An emptiness when you realize the loneliest you've ever been is within a marraige, as a wife
Nikki Gemmell
#85. The single most important relationship you have is with yourself; when you realize you are everything, your relationship with yourself can become an infinite expression of love.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#86. When you realize your own magnificence, you will only attract magnificence into your life.
Anita Moorjani
#87. Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.
Ray Stevenson
#88. The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
Bram Cohen
#89. You need to find the power within to make [things] happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable.
Christina Aguilera
#90. There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.
Marsha Norman
#91. You can always tell duty. It's what you don't want to do
it's what you fight against inside you. Duty's when you realize how it'll hurt other people and you choose between that and what would be easiest for you.
Leslie Ford
#92. When you realize that the feeling you have - is - the response you choose, you are free in that moment.
Bryant McGill
#93. When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.
Jostein Gaarder
#94. [...] the quiet break of soul that comes when you realize that what looked like a rainbow was actually only a trick of the light.
Jodi Picoult
#95. You don't get a choice in who you love, because often when you realize that you're in love, it's far too late to choose.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#96. When you realize, you have no idea what's going on in your kid's head? One morning, you wake up and there's this alien in your house. They look like your kid, sound a little like them, but they are not your kid. They're something else that you don't know.
Megan Abbott
#97. Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
Bill Vaughan
#98. 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
#99. I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.
Courteney Cox
#100. Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the "emotion" you desire.
Shannon L. Alder
