Realization Quotes - Page 32

• I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.

  Adrian Tomine

  Character, People, Balloons

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc.

  Simon Critchley

  Religious, Disappointment, Two

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.31, Polity

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• It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than performers. None of them seemed too concerned about the plastic realization of their music.

  Helene Grimaud

  Interesting, Priorities, Different

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

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• Morality comes from a commitment to treat other as we wish to be treated, which follows from the realization that none of us is the sole occupant of the universe.

  Steven Pinker

  Commitment, Wish, Morality

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• If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.

  A. H. Almaas

  Believe, Mind, Needs

  A. H. Almaas (2011). “Diamond Heart: Book Five: Inexhaustible Mystery”, p.63, Shambhala Publications

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• One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

  Hugh Prather

  Taken, Procrastination, Maturity

  Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.81, Conari Press

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• Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Self, Knowing, Soul

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• Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Empathy, Desire

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.203, New World Library

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• Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

  Richard Ford

  Richard Ford (2012). “The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land”, p.9, A&C Black

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• I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I was.

  Ashton Eaton

  Moments, Runners, Wanted

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• One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment - only you must first realize this.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Wish, May, Firsts

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• Our own private intuition is the catalyst for self-improvement and self-realization, because when it comes to making deep and lasting changes in one's personal life, it is only subjective experience, not facts, that registers as real.

  Penney Peirce

  Real, Self, Lasting Change

  Penney Peirce, Michael Bernard Beckwith (2011). “Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Men, Self, Creation

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• Progress is the realization of utopia.

  Oscar Wilde

  Progress, Utopia

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.16, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

  Chris Hayes

  Simple, World, Assuming

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• Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing the same old things, thinking the same old thoughts. Repentance is a decision to follow Jesus Christ and become his pilgrim in the path of peace. Repentance is the most practical of all words and the most practical of all acts. It is a feet-on-the-ground-kind-of-word. It puts a person in touch with the reality that God creates.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, Reality, Thinking

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• The basic idea is that there is this group that, over the centuries, has learned to control reincarnation. John's character stumbles into that realization, and it's a lot closer to him than he would ever have wanted to know. It's a metaphor for when you get in a fight with your significant other and you go, "Who is this?," or you look in the mirror and go, "Why did I say that?" It's the intruder. When you threw a temper tantrum at two years old, it's them.

  Glen Morgan

  Character, Fighting, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find and of achieving realization of this find. What we imagine does not necessarily take on concrete form and may remain in a state of virtuality; whereas invention is not conceivable apart from its actually being worked out.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Confused, Imagination, Doe

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.

  Andy Rooney

  Two, Giving, Advice

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• We will not make inroads into the gun-violence problem until we acknowledge the underlying causes of youth behavior today, compared to yesterday. ... we must come to the realization that laws and regulations alone cannot produce a civilized society. It's morality that is society's first line of defense against uncivilized behavior.

  Walter E. Williams

  Gun, Law, Yesterday

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• The highest truth is to delete, not to add. To get rid of the things you believe in now. So empty yourself out totally and completely. All of your ideas, your feelings, all have to be emptied out of you. When you become totally and completely empty there is nothing you have to do to fill it up again. Emptiness is realization. Emptiness is Brahman. Emptiness is the Self. Emptiness is your real nature.

  Robert Adams

  Real, Believe, Self

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• That's why their realization is not integrated and complete, and they must go through many, many lifetimes very often before that acceptance will take place.

  Frederick Lenz

  Acceptance, Lifetime, Samadhi

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• Tantra is only recommended for someone who has a very developed will power, a terrific sense of humor, and a sense that nothing else matters but God and self-realization.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Self, Matter

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• The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.

  Bruce Catton

  Memories, War, People

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• The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has been chosen not only to continue the work assigned to Greece and Rome, but to accomplish a greater work than was assigned to either. In art, it will prove false to its mission if it do not rival Greece; and in science and philosophy, if it do not surpass it. In the State, in law, in jurisprudence, it must continue and surpass Rome.

  Orestes Brownson

  Art, Philosophy, Ideas

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