Quotes about Realization

The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.

People say there are two great days in a person's life: the day you were born and the day you discover why. I

Success can be defined as the progressive realization of a predetermined goal.

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

Education without execution is extinction

I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.

I realized that for years I'd thought of love as something that would complete me, make all my troubles go away. I worshipped at the altar of romantic completion. And it had cost me, plenty of times. And it had cost me most of the girls I'd dated, too, because I wanted them to be something they weren't. It's too much pressure to put on a person.

Hell is truth known too late.

My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

Until one day I realized that regret from the past was keeping me from living well in the present. And it was robbing me of a future.

Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did.