You get there by realizing you are already there. — Eckhart Tolle
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. — Jack Welch
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage — Ramana Maharshi
It's realizing that a great dream is not as good as a great memory. The dream can be had by anyone. The memory - must be made. — Eric Thomas
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. — Madeleine L'Engle
Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another. — Claude Levi-Strauss
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. — Lao Tzu
Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are. — Ramesh S Balsekar
The dream is realized where you do not expect it — Greek Proverbs
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be — Alan Watts
Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger. — Thomas Merton
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is. — Alan Watts
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream. — Jack Kerouac
When You've lost it all....thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful. — Nikki Sixx
I've realized that being happy is a choice. — Angelina Jolie
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex. — Katharine Hepburn
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
Self Realization Quotes
I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it. — Marcus Garvey
The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life. — Witness Lee
It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others. — Terry Fox
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. — Ramana Maharshi
If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love. — Muhammad Ali
No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.
Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending. — Virginia Satir
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. — Sivananda
Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Finally Realizing Quotes
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. — Og Mandino
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it. — Margaret Atwood
When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being. — Winona Ryder
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why.
One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
When you wait to invest in education, you pay twice. The first time when you make less than you should be making. The second time when you finally realize you should’ve learned this a long time ago and then finally pay. Ignorance burns you twice. — Alex Hormozi
I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all.
But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was.
Now I'm finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love. — Stevie Ray Vaughan
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; There is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage. — Florenz Ziegfeld
There is nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. When you've lost it all, that's when you finally realize that life is beautiful. — Nikki Sixx
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself. — Oprah Winfrey
I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time. — Ravi Zacharias
Growing Up Realizing Quotes
It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. — Nicholas Sparks
You have to rely on your support system. Growing up, I always thought it was a sign of weakness to ask for help, but now I realize it's really a sign of strength to say, 'I need help, I can't do it all.' — Kerri Walsh
We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil. — Saint Basil
I always thought someone should do something, until, one day I realised I was Someone.
Just being at home, growing up naturally, and being here now with my video and my music, I think people realize that I was in the Spice Girls 8 years ago. — Emma Bunton
Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents. — Suzanne La Follette
I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort. — Zach Galifianakis
Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.
Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape. — Dave Attell
I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change. — Mac DeMarco
I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously. — Kurt Cobain
As people grow up, they realize it's less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones. — Lauren Conrad
Waking Up And Realizing Quotes
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. — George Saunders
In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns. — Jeremiah Wright
I think women see me on the cover of magazines and think I never have a pimple or bags under my eyes. You have to realize that's after two hours of hair and makeup, plus retouching. Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. — Cindy Crawford
There comes a point when you have to realize that you'll never be good enough for some people. The question is, is that your problem or theirs?
People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it. — Robert Kiyosaki
Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time. — Shauna Niequist
As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up. — Bruce Lee
You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect. — Mariska Hargitay
Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. — Thornton Wilder
Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I'm on a roll second to none. — Hugh Hefner
Maturity Is Realizing Quotes
Every guy is going to realize that every relationship is an opportunity for growth. — Corey Wayne
Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves. — Bruce Lee
The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world. — Albert Ellis
Faith is realizing you always get what you need.
To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach. — Sissela Bok
A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make. — Denis Waitley
Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end.
When one is fully matured, realization is explosive. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There comes a point you have to realize that you'll never be good enough for some people. The question is, is that your problem or theirs.
Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for. — Hugh Prather
When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible. — Marianne Williamson
The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless. — Bram Cohen
Realising Quotes
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau
Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do. — Stephen Curry
So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior. — Steven Biko
I tell the truth; listen everyone. Only those who have Loved, will realise the Lord — Guru Gobind Singh
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light. — Julius Evola
Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation.
So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance.
But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge. — Ramakrishna
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner! — Max Lucado
We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own! — Steven Biko
The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. — Louis Kahn
Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality. — Lester B. Pearson
Life Realization Quotes
You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count. — Nancy Reagan
There comes a point in your life when you realize:
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won't anymore,
And who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future. — Adam Lindsay Gordon
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. — Socrates
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Failing for Success — Thomas A. Edison
Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it! — Sathya Sai Baba
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. — Albert Ellis
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. — Alan Watts
As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know? — Lemmy Kilmister
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. — Eckhart Tolle
Realize Things Quotes
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. — Ramakrishna
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.
When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word. — Jean-Paul Sartre
I wanted to show the real side of me because of the unfair things that people said about me, but I realized that it was impossible and tried to think of why people thought of me in that manner. — Kim Jong-hyun
It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done — Gregg Popovich
Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. — Dogen
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. — Frank A. Clark
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. — Robert Breault
I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society. — Karl Popper
As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way. — Dorothy Day
Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God. — Ramakrishna
If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves. — Marcus Garvey
I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power. — Kathryn Kuhlman
God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown. — Smith Wigglesworth
Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent. — Camila Cabello
Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation. — Yuri Gagarin
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. — Og Mandino
When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old. — T. D. Jakes
You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind. — T. D. Jakes
You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish. — Oscar Romero
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