Quotes about Realization

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

Anyone can find the switch after the lights are on.

We all have two lives, your second one begins when you realize you've only got one.

The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.

They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.

You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesnt mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life's mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.

Had you noticed them before? he asked. No, never before, she replied. And now you will always see them, he said.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.