Realization Quotes - Page 37

• I know, that Rilke quote - "Beauty is the beginning of terror" - I think about that a lot. It's that realization that we are so small, and yet we are so large in our capacity to relate to the beauty of things.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Thinking, Capacity, Terror

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.

  Ed Parker

  Littles, Knows

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• Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

  Arthur Henderson

  War, Civilization, Years

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• My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

  Christopher Morley

  Life, Prayer, War

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• Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your right life, the ultimate realization of your potential for happiness. I believe that a knowledge of that perfect life sits inside you just as the North Star sits in its unaltering spot.

  Martha Beck

  Stars, Believe, Sight

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• It isn’t necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look; you only have to know what feels better and what feels worse…Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.

  Martha Beck

  Feel Better, Thinking, Choices

  "How to escape your rat race" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2009.

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• Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy.

  Martha Beck

  Friends, Stars, Essence

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.338, Harmony

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• Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Father, Godly, Agony

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fear and respect as I suddenly saw and felt how deeply my own personal life and opinions were immersed in the eternal stream of great ideas. Though it offered some confirmation and gratification, the realization was not really a joyful one. It was hard and had a harsh taste because it implied responsibility and no longer being allowed to be a child; it meant standing on one’s own feet.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Responsibility, Men

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• So I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life.

  Rob Lowe

  Life Is, Life Is Unfair, Unfair

  Rob Lowe (2011). “Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography”, p.303, Macmillan

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• One of the most scariest thing in life,is when you come to the realization that the only thing that can save you,is...yourself Demi lovato

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Things In Life, Life Is

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• The way we think may be completely different, but you and I are an ancient, archetypal couple, the original man and woman. We are the model for Adam and Eve. For all couples in love, there comes a moment when a man gazes at a woman with the very same kind of realization. It is an infinite helix, the dance of two souls resonating, like the twist of DNA, like the vast universe.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Couple, Men, Thinking

  Banana Yoshimoto, Ann Sherif (1996). “Lizard”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• And yet and yet - the last secret of the tree of codes is that nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Nowhere as much as there do we feel possibilities shaken by the nearness of realization. The atmosphere becomes possibilities and we shall wander and make a thousand mistakes. We shall wander along yet not be able to understand.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mistake, Tree, Atmosphere

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• How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mad, Silence, Mind

  Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.74, Grove Press

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• Somewhere in this process you will come face-to-face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill utterly out of control and hopeless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way and you just never noticed. You are also no crazier than everybody else around you. The only real difference is that you have confronted the situation they have not.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Crazy, Real, Differences

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• All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

  Thornton Wilder

  Gratitude, Grief, Reality

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• The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary. You just dragged the fan up to everything you had spent the years raking together and turned the motherfucker on.

  Stephen King

  Real, Years, Scary

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• What happened when you woke up?" "I was having a dream. I don’t know what it was, but when I woke up, I had this awful realization that I was awake. It hit me like a brick in the groin." "Like a brick in the groin, I see." "I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." "And what is that nightmare, Craig?" "Life." "Life is a nightmare." "Yes.

  Ned Vizzini

  Dream, Wake Up, Want

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• ...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Song, Children, Flower

  Elizabeth Goudge (1958). “The White Witch”

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• Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

  Steven Biko

  Brother, Men, Essence

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• That’s where the dreams end: with the realization that it doesn’t matter where I am, whether I think I’m a woman or a fish or something in-between. I’ve never really left the pond. I still can’t breathe.

  Mira Grant

  Dream, Thinking, Ponds

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• Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

  Octavio Paz

  Discovery, Self, Sudden Realization

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.9, Grove Press

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• If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Pain, Past

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.92, New World Library

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• We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Profound

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• Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.

  Sidney Phillips

  Inspirational, Men, Hands

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