Realizing Quotes - Page 27

• I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Years, Two, Drawing

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

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• Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Justice, Romance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.245, Harvard University Press

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• I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Thinking, Let It Go, Bangs

  Pierre Trudeau's speech before the Canadian Senate in opposition to the Meech Lake Accord, March 30, 1988.

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• Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Ideas, Taste, Function

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1995). “The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments”

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• I think my life actually changed at 40. That's when you realize you can't ride the fence anymore. You either have to get on one side or the other. I think some of my best years were between 40 and 50: I got my priorities straight and life is good to me now. It's only other people who say, "God, she's 50 years old!" as if I'm over the hill. I feel like I just started.

  Dolly Parton

  Life Is Good, Thinking, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you have done the spiritual growing up you realize that every human being is of equal importance, has work to do in this world, and has equal potential. We are in many varied stages of growth; this is true because we have free will. You have free will as to whether you will finish the mental and emotional growing up. Many choose not to.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Growing Up, Emotional

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.23, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I learned about forty years ago that money and things wouldn't make people happy. And this has been confirmed many times. I have met many millionaires. They had one thing in common. None of them were happy....I realize that if you don't have enough you won't be happy. Neither are you happy if you have too much. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Years, People, Too Much

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• We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Alive, Materialism

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• People have said, "You've turned your back on pediatrics." I said, "No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics."

  Benjamin Spock

  People, Said

  Associated Press interview, 1992.

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• It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Doors, Events, Looks

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1656, Delphi Classics

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• As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Problem, Capable

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• Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.

  Herbert Spencer

  Character, Men, Radicalism

  Herbert Spencer (1851). “Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed”, p.469

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• More and more, I have come to realize how thoughts and concepts are all that block us from always being . . . in the absolute. . . . When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Block, Views, Fleeting

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• You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.

  Kingsley Amis

  Sex, Cutting, Maturity

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• We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formulas help you to realize the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, temples, whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward towards the brutes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Two, Want

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• Do you realize this? That if you were to somehow purpose to, from this day on, perfectly please God and succeed in doing it, that that perfect obedience, from this moment, would not acquire in the remainder of your life, enough merit to atone for one past sin, because God exacts and God demands perfect obedience and there's no merit for giving him the minimal requirement.

  Paris Reidhead

  Past, Giving, Perfect

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• Whether I'm shooting 10-under or 10-over I have to realize people have come a long way to see me play. I can't be back-handing putts.

  John Daly

  Play, Long, People

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• We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don't end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don't want it, because by then it's too late.  We are powerful enough that we can manifest anything into our lives.  To use this power with great care and love is the secret to living a happy life.

  Margaret Cho

  Powerful, Happy Life, Love Is

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• If you have done something once, you can do it again or you can do it better. The beauty is the pursuit of the limit, not the limit itself. At least that's what I hope people realize.

  Ashton Eaton

  People, Done, Limits

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• I've been racing a long time, and I realize you go through good streaks and bad streaks.

  Jeff Gordon

  Long, Racing, Streaks

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• We are like droplets of water in an ocean of consciousness; individual to an extent, but those droplets together make up the ocean -- without the droplets there is no ocean. It is the same with this infinite energy mind we call creation/god. We are not part of that infinity -- we are that infinity if we open ourselves up to reconnect with it. Wherever you stand in infinity, you are at the center of infinity. So everything that exists is everything that exists. I am everything that exists; and so are you -- the more you realize that, the more you open up to the full infinity of who you are.

  David Icke

  Ocean, Water, Mind

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• People don't realize that I'm mobile, athletic and strong-armed.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Strong, People, Athletic

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• I kind of grew up my whole life as an underdog. I had two older brothers who would beat on me and then let me know I wasn't much compared to them. And it's still like that. Guys like that keep you humble, being around them every day and realizing I'm still the little brother to them.

  A. J. Hawk

  Brother, Humble, Two

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• What I try to do is create an energy, create an excitement, but at the same time keep everybody focused and realize it's still just a game, that we have to move the football.

  Joey Harrington

  Football, Moving, Games

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• Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection

  John Allen Paulos

  Insecurity, Would Be, Protection

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