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• To tell a man who has no realization that he is lost, that he may be saved by faith in Christ, means nothing to him, however true and blessed the fact is in itself.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Blessed, Mean, Men

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• Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, States, Prepared

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

  Radclyffe Hall

  Heart, May, Mutual Love

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• As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny.

  Tone Bell

  Reality, Joy, Mixtures

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration, to realizing economic determination, becoming mentally emancipated, and ushering in a political resurgence.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Spiritual, Determination, Political

  "A Life of Azikiwe". Book by K. A. B. Jones-Quartey, 1965.

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• While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Achievement, Capacity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.104, Open Road Media

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• Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.

  Madame de Stael

  Real, Effort, Attention

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• It's a glorious universe the positive thinkers have come up with, a vast, shimmering aurora borealis in which desires mingle freely with their realizations. ... Dreams go out and fulfill themselves; wishes need only to be articulated.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Dream, Thinking, Optimism

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.73, Metropolitan Books

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• The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to that of others reflects the understanding that individual happiness needs a base broader than the mere satisfaction of selfish passions. From there, it is not such a large step to the realization that respecting the susceptibilities and rights of others is as important as defending one's own susceptibilities and rights if civilized society is to be safeguarded.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Selfish, Passion, Individual Happiness

  Aung San Suu Kyi, University of Oxford. Refugee Studies Programme (1993). “Towards a true refuge”

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• When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Past, Parent, Return

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books

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• Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Army, People, Bores

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• The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.

  David Drake

  Determination, Numbers, People

  David Drake (2012). “Voyage Across the Stars”, p.624, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience.

  Tilopa

  Philosophy, Light, Discipline

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• God is one among several hypotheses to account for the phenomena of human destiny, and it is now proving to be an inadequate hypothesis. To a great many people, including myself, this realization is a great relief, both intellectually and morally. It frees us to explore the real phenomena for which the God hypothesis seeks to account, to define them more accurately, and to work for a more satisfying set of concepts.

  Julian Huxley

  God, Religious, Real

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• I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.

  Jay-Z

  Dream, Fighting, People

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies either a universal loathing or a universal veneration (which are much the same thing).

  Philippe Sollers

  Sex, Clumsiness, Loathing

  Philippe Sollers (1994). “Watteau in Venice: A Novel”, Scribner

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• To be at one with God is to be at peace. The child simplicity is the greatest agency in bringing this full and complete realization, the child simplicity that recognizes its true relations with the Father's life. There are people I know who have come into such a conscious realization of their oneness with this Infinite Life, this Spirit of Infinite Peace, that their lives are fairly bubbling over with joy.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Children, Father, Oneness

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “In Tune with the Infinite”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Realization of God cannot be achieved without ecstatic love for Him.

  Sarada Devi

  Ecstatic Love, Ecstatic

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations". Book by Swami Nikhilananda (p. 290), August 31, 2004.

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• A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Destiny, Poetry, Responsible

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.177, Penguin UK

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• Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.

  John Sterling

  Men, Color, Ideas

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.109

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• The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to the socialized and apathetic behavior of passengers who hardly look out the windows.

  Paul Goodman

  Dream, Stars, Men

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 144), 1956.

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• To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.

  Anais Nin

  Animal, World, Occupation

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• Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve
  purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Opposites, Justice

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• We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Power, Love Is, Source

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World”, p.34, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life And Death, Flow, Eternity

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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