Quotes about Realization
Therefore, we do not become conscious of the three greatest blessings of life as such, namely health, youth, and freedom, as long as we possess them, but only after we have lost them; for they too are negations.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
That was the real sentence imposed upon him, he thought - to discover what idea, what simple idea available to the simplest man, had made mankind accept the doctrines that led it to self-destruction.
- Ayn Rand
You were saved when you believed in Jesus, but you were transformed when you realized He believed in you.
- Kris Vallotton
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
- Dorothy Sayers
Our safety net must reflect our country's belief that - without exception - Americans are not liabilities to be written off but assets to be realized.
- Todd Young
When I began to realize how often we quarrelled, how often I picked on her with nervous irritation, I became aware that our love was doomed: love had turned into a love-affair with a beginning and an end.
- Graham Greene
For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.
- Graham Greene
in a flash of insight he became aware of the innumerable necessary evils of which life for her was made up.
- Graham Greene
The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
- Henri Nouwen
Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.
- Robert Brault
There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.
- Robert Brault
Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.
- Robert Brault