When You Realize Quotes

#1. I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you go, 'Why does that person need such a large entourage?' And then you realize that every single person there has a role to play.

Lupita Nyong'o

#2. That's the worst of growing up,
and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so
much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful
to you when you get them.

L.M. Montgomery

#3. When you hear the things that people have gone through and realize you've gone through the same, it provides an amazing amount of relief. It gives us hope. And I think that's what we're supposed to get from each other. The

Marc Maron

#4. You know you've had too much to eat for Christmas dinner when you slump down onto a beanbag and realize ... there is no beanbag.

David Letterman

#5. when you find out who your not allowed to criticize, then you will realize who is in control".

Voltairine De Cleyre

#6. I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just

Billy Corgan

#7. All life isn't hearts and flowers. But life is just as much pain and mess as it is joy and order, too. I guess when you make yourself realize that you..start growing up - Boy's Life

Robert McCammon

#8. When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth.
You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you and you did not know it.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#10. I didn't realize how angry and jealous it would make me to see you being held by another man, and when he dropped his hands to your ass and thrust his leg between yours I wanted to rip his fucking head off and then spin around the room holding it up like a warning sign.

Jen Frederick

#11. When you realize how much you're worth, You'll stop giving people discounts.

Karen Salmansohn

#12. Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?"
Dream: "There isn't one."
Delirium: "Oh. I thought maybe there was.

Neil Gaiman

#13. 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

#14. When I think about you with him, it guts me. I feel like you ripped open my chest and tore out my damn heart. Do you even realize that? I know I should want you to be happy, but I can't wish it for anyone else other than me. I belong to you, and that's never going to change.

Ashleigh Z.

#15. When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.

Roz Savage

#16. On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

Eckhart Tolle

#17. When you become a parent, you become a superhero. You realize you have more strength, energy and love than is humanly possible.

Kailin Gow

#18. Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.

Rick Riordan

#19. When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you ... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see ... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.

Guy Finley

#20. You do realize that the cost of that bracelet is within spitting distance of my going rate as an assassin, right?"
"You mean your going rate back when you were actually killing people for money," Finn said. "Or as I like to call them - the good ole days.

Jennifer Estep

#21. It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Barack Obama

#22. People don't realize that when you're Latin, you're so diverse. I am black. I am Latin. I am Spanish. You know? It's a little bit of everything, and that's beautiful. So, everybody, claim me. I'm fine with that!

Joan Smalls

#23. When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

Cherrie Moraga

#24. I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.

Melina Marchetta

#25. It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself,

Anne Carson

#26. When you realize you are not a limited, fixed self, that fixed I you always relate to, you realize you are constantly changing-limitless with limitless ability

Brian E. Miller

#27. When you look out the other way toward the stars you realize it's an awful long way to the next watering hole.

Loren Acton

#28. When you have a special gift you don't realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.

Michael Jackson

#29. I realize that two years is not a long time. I realize that even ten years is not a long time. But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last.

David Levithan

#30. Everything that happens is God's will. When you realize that, you're home free.

Byron Katie

#31. If you are a singer and you lose your voice, you realize that you have other skill sets when that is taken out of the equation.

Annie Golden

#32. I like Dr. Daniel Amen's 18/40/60 Rule: When you're 18, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when you're 40, you don't give a darn what anybody thinks of you; when you're 60, you realize nobody's been thinking about you at all.

Jack Canfield

#33. 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

#34. I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.

Sierra McCormick

#35. I was always a liar. But one thing I failed to realize about being a liar is that you know when you are deceiving someone else, but when you deceive yourself you believe you are telling the truth.

Jack Gantos

#36. Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.

Ruta Sepetys

#37. I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.

Ezra Taft Benson

#38. It is precisely when you are loved a lot that you might realize a second loneliness which is not to be solved but lived. This second loneliness is an existential loneliness that belongs to the basis of our being. It's where we are unfulfilled because only God can fill us.

Henri Nouwen

#39. You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

Dennis Miller

#40. When you live in Vancouver, you realize most of the population is in eastern North America.

Jim Pattison

#41. Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people.

Zack Snyder

#42. That's the difference between family and friends. Family is always there, no matter what, even when it's not right next door. Which means that you'll find a way to keep the connection alive. Especially since you realize how important it is.

Nicholas Sparks

#43. You're learning. So why don't we stop pretending? It's so much easier when you give up all those illusions and realize that the only justice you'll get in this life is the justice you dish out. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, mate. You need to sharpen your teeth. Don't get angry. Get even.

Barry Jonsberg

#44. There comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are written down have any possibility of being real.

James Salter

#45. Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.

Mooji

#46. When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.

Marianne Williamson

#47. Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

Caitlin Rose

#48. When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#49. Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.

John Goodman

#50. When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.

Richard D. Zanuck

#51. What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between.

Robert Motherwell

#52. When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not really doing it for yourself.

Luis Valdez

#53. When you're faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realize that life is worth living and there are a lots of things you want to do.

Stephen Hawking

#54. I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.

Jane Roberts

#55. I tell myself that I know you,
and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

Nicholas Sparks

#56. When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

John Sexton

#57. When you realize there's so much you can't control, you get pretty stingy with what you can.

Amy Harmon

#58. We had six years of happiness. And it was you who had to spoil it. With you, when something is right, it's never enough. You don't value happiness. You don't even realize. Because you always want more. (She

David Hare

#59. 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

#60. What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it ... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff.

Joel Siegel

#61. Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.

Stephen Covey

#62. When you undress for bed, let yourself dance as if life pleases you, then apologize when you suddenly realize she is there and put yourself straight into your blankets. Can you blush?" A

Robert Jordan

#63. You won't understand where home is until you realize it is the only place your mind takes you back to when every journey ends badly.

Shannon L. Alder

#64. However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no absolute self apart from things, you realize that essentially, you are all the other beings.

Robert Thurman

#65. Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help ... When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

Paulo Coelho

#66. Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

Erich Maria Remarque

#67. Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all.

Laurence Yep

#68. It's that awkward moment when you realize that the only nearby food is you. I

Eric A. Shelman

#69. When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.

Diane Ravitch

#70. Early on, I used to think it was really cool and macho to jump out of the car and tackle the bad guy. But then when you see the stunts in the movie, you realize it could've been a lady in a poncho.

Charlie Sheen

#71. Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.

Nicholas Sparks

#72. When you're a teacher, you realize that you have to clearly encapsulate some unrelated technical ideas that you take for granted and understand and put them into words so someone else will understand them.

Joe Satriani

#73. People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

Condoleezza Rice

#74. Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.

Jodi Picoult

#75. There comes a point in everybody's life when you realize the stakes have suddenly changed. The carefree ride of your life slams into a stone wall; all those years of merely bouncing along, life taking you where you want to go, abruptly end.

James Patterson

#76. Ah, that's an argument I hear often," Father Alberto said. "How can a God exist when it seems so many have been forsaken? But you fail to realize, son, without the bad we can't truly appreciate the good.

J.M. Darhower

#77. 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

#78. It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

Andrew Carnegie

#79. ...Now did you ever hear of a young feller's having such hard luck, Mrs. Burden?"

Grandma told him she was sure the Lord had remembered these things to his credit, and had helped him out of many a scrape when he didn't realize that he was being protected by Providence.

Willa Cather

#80. You realize you've forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don't speak bad about them anymore, even if you're encouraged to do so, even if you remember you were once brutally broken because of them ...
you just move on, let go, let them be and let yourself be ...

Sanhita Baruah

#81. Money is ego, and people won't give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold on to it like a blanket. They don't realize it keeps them slaves. It's sick" "What's funny is that as soon as you give everything away, as soon as you say, Here, take it - that's when you really have everything".

Emma Cline

#82. No, the next time i kiss you it'll last a long, long time. And then when we're done you're gonna realize being turned on is not about experience

Simone Elkeles

#83. Mystical bliss, joy and rapture arises when you realize the inner Sun.

Amit Ray

#84. That's the illusion of war. You think the world is over when your city comes down. But then you realize that you're just one city in a planet the size of ten million cities" -Nim

Lauren DeStefano

#85. When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.

Byron Katie

#86. It was like seeing the slides at the optometrist, when you didn't even realize how blurry something was until you got to see the clearer version, and you could see what had been obscured before.

Morgan Matson

#87. There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

Carre Otis

#88. When asked where God is, people point towards the sky or some far and distant region: no wonder then that He does not manifest Himself! Realize that He is in you, with you, behind you, and all around you; and He can be seen and felt everywhere.

Sathya Sai Baba

#89. And when you realize, finally, that deeply wounded
things need loyalty more than love-

Then you will see the human race in a way as the earth has been seen
by a few from the moon.

Michael Xavier

#90. Think about it: If you don't have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You may be laughing and nodding, but do you realize how few people, when asked the basic question, 'What can you do?' stumble on the answer and have nothing to say? Most people.

Tucker Max

#91. It's only when you've lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that
phrase "It's a small world". It isn't. It's a vast, devouring world, especially if you're alone.

Clive Barker

#92. You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

David Foster Wallace

#93. The sensation that allows you to experience the physical reality, when detached from the physical body allows you to realize life beyond the physical reality.

Roshan Sharma

#94. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king. Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.

Laozi

#95. Seeing your work in something animated, you realize how little you have to do with all of it. It's always a surprise, and its always exciting to see. You never know what is going to happen when you're in that room by yourself.

Jane Lynch

#96. I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

Gia Coppola

#97. Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their eyes. But in fact they hear what they are reading far more than you realize.

William Zinsser

#98. All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me ... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Walt Disney Company

#99. When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.

Vince Vaughn

#100. You realize something once, when you are nine, and then you realize it again when you are ten, and you realize when you are eleven, twelve, but every year you see that what you thought you understood a year ago, no, wait it is ten times worse. And your heart fills up with lead.

Rebecca Makkai