Realizing Quotes

5026 Realizing quotes by 3069 unique authors

I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully)… — Elizabeth Gilbert
There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple… — William George Jordan
You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them. — Neal Shusterman
My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it… — Malcolm Gladwell
One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever… — Jerry Spinelli
My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents had done the… — Carlos Castaneda
People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets… — Thomas Sowell
Every soul is special. They’re all beautiful. They’re all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people are at their… — Jim Butcher
I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers… — Madeleine L'Engle
Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness sets in. They… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs,… — D. H. Lawrence
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up… — John Green
There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty… — Gene Stratton-Porter
Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It’s a mistake I don’t want to repeat. (Xypher) You know sometimes it’s by repeating our… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know… — Mother Teresa
I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to… — Jodi Picoult
Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing… — Jodi Picoult
[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk… — Jean Vanier
Sometimes we don’t realize how destructive our creations are until it’s too late. And sometimes those creations we make turn on us and seek only… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our… — Voltaire
Look, I realize both of you could happily strangle each other across the table, but I don't think that's the most effective use of our… — Maggie Stiefvater
I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you… — Jodi Picoult
And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through life, pretending to… — Lauren Oliver
I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we… — Nikos Kazantzakis
As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in the meaningless sea… — David Platt

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