Realize Life Quotes

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  The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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• When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf

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• I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Graeme Simsion

  Love, Cute, Romantic

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

  Thornton Wilder

  Realizing, Our Town, Humans

  Our Town act 3 (1938)

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• EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

  Thornton Wilder

  Doe, Saint, Realizing

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• To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Beautiful, Art, Civilization

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses”

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• Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

  Thornton Wilder

  Earth, Realizing, Wonderful

  Our Town act 3 (1938)

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• I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.

  Queen Latifah

  Believe, Thinking, Realizing

  "'Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom,' by Queen Latifah". abcnews.go.com. May 5, 2010.

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• I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.

  Tyler Perry

  Caring, Thinking, People

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• People are born, they have a limited amount of time going around thinking life is dandy but then, inevitably, tragedy strikes and they realize life equals loss! The whole point of the game is to minimize the pain caused by that equation! Now some people do it by having kids, or making money, or taking up coin collecting, and others do it by getting wasted.

  Dominic West

  Meaningful, Pain, Kids

  "Fictional character: Jasper". "28 Days", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• When you start to realize life isn't fair, what do you do: curl up and die or fight every second of the way?

  Aubrey O'Day

  Fighting, Curls, Way

  "Aubrey O’Day: ‘Last night I was stolen by a hawk’". PopWrap interview, pagesix.com. October 22, 2009.

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• You have to celebrate the gifts because life is so hard and I think once you realize life's gonna be hard, the good stuff really comes forward.

  Dana Reeve

  Thinking, Stuff, Realizing

  "Dana Reeve's Fight Against Lung Cancer". Access Hollywood Interview, www.today.com. August 10, 2005.

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