Realizing Quotes - Page 30

• The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Father, Feelings, Divine Power

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• To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That's all! And then you realize, "I'm here." Here is where thoughts aren't believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing. Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Zero, Thinking

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.186, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

  Bill Mauldin

  Hurt, Children, Real

  Time magazine, July 21, 1961.

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• My dad is my dad. I love him, and I realize that he's as famous as he is. Of course, I don't look at him like everybody else does. Because I know his little faults, I know his weaknesses. Nobody's perfect. But he's my dad. Just like your dad is to you.

  Laila Ali

  Dad, I Love Him, Perfect

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• I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

  Saul Bellow

  Age, Stingy, Ifs

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• So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself.

  Christopher Durang

  Writing, Play, Firsts

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• Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

  William McDonough

  Tragedy, Culture, Warning

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• Right before they named the (2014) team, I stepped back and I allowed myself to realize what I had accomplished. I got overwhelmed and the tears came pretty quickly. It's an honor to represent my country again and to represent my sport to the world and to hold it down for all those 30-year old athletes out there.

  Kelly Clark

  Sports, Country, Team

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

  Keith Jarrett

  Believe, Artist, Tasks

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• When you are not separate from the creative process, time ceases to exist. You might start to feel tired and suddenly realize that much time has passed. It isn't necessarily a happy time - and may be very difficult to start if it is a job or an obligation. But if' you start with all the concrete needs and proceed in a thorough way - the creative process will take over and you will forget whether it is work or play. Working in the here and now is one of the most uncontaminated ways to work.

  Corita Kent

  Jobs, Tired, Happy Times

  Corita Kent, Corita (1992). “Learning by Heart”, Bantam

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• Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peaceful, Violence, Normal

  Theodore Roosevelt, H. W. Brands (2001). “African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist”, p.240, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Significant and seemingly impossible social and political change happens more often than we think, and it happens more rapidly than we realize. Even the most momentous change is always possible if one finds the right way to make it happen.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Thinking, Political, Way

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• God loves America. When you consider what He went through to bring our forbearers to this magnificent land, and when you realize what He accomplished in bringing forth a new nation on this continent - a government founded on Christian principles...you have to realize that He had a dramatic vision and purpose for this nation.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Government, Land

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• It's not about me. The power is in God, it's in the message and I now realize I need to be vocal about it... God uses flawed people to spread the message of His Son; if He can use me, He can use anybody. Whatever you do in life becomes the platform for your faith.

  Jase Robertson

  Son, People, Needs

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• Whenever I'm in doubt, I ask myself, 'What would Jesus do?' And then I realize, Jesus got crucified, so maybe his decision-making isn't all that great.

  Unknown

  Jesus, Decision, Doubt

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• I stand here not because I have fame or money or because I play on TV or hit a World Series home run. That doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because I stand here as a humble person because I know He could have picked someone else. In His Word he says, 'the least of us shall be first.' When I look up, I realize I am blessed and I say thank you Jesus for all you have done for me because without you I would be nothing.

  Joe Carter

  Running, Jesus, Blessed

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• I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ's church and take the Gospel everywhere.

  Billy Graham

  Men, Church, Ministry

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.39, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Somehow ungodly men have developed systems of organization which permit them to work together in states of relative harmony and unity, whereas godly men, refusing to admit that these organizational structures are needed, live in states of chaos and disunity. The tragedy of this fact becomes evident when we realize that many of the successful systems of organization under which the godly men work and which the godly men refuse to accept are biblically based.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Godly, Successful, Men

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• Here's the thing about global warming that I didn't realize: it would all happen at once.

  Jon Stewart

  Global Warming, Happens

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• One thing members of Congress need to realize is how much their reliance on staffers is hurting the institution and helping make it unaccountable.

  John Fund

  Hurt, Needs, Helping

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• No one in Washington realizes you can't borrow money endlessly.

  Porter Stansberry

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• Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade between individuals or nations, you must realize that your standard of living is being lowered as a result.

  John Pugsley

  Government, Subsidies, Tariffs

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• It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

  Mark Twain

  Growing, Littles, Matter

  Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.264, 谷月社

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• The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

  George Orwell

  Average, Class, Soul

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.

  Victoria Osteen

  Jobs, Hands, Pay

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