When it happens you are very surprised, and you feel that it is not real, but obviously it is real so I have to get used to it now. — Emmanuelle Charpentier
There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real. — James Salter
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. — Doris Lessing
When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery. — William Thomson
When one of your dreams come true, you begin to look at the others more carefully. — Anonymous
When you confront a problem you begin to solve it. — Rudy Giuliani
When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Short When You Realize Quotes
There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. — Frances Farmer
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself. — Ethel Barrymore
You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you. — Gary Renard
When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding. — Chinese Proverbs
When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems. — Thubten Yeshe
You never find yourself until you face the truth. — Pearl Bailey
There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself. — Logan Paul
When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago. — Amy Clampitt
Top 10 When You Realize Quotes
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 can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent. — Joseph Murphy
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. — Dalai Lama
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you. — Billy Joel
Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary. — Eckhart Tolle
You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future. — Andy Griffith
A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are for what you have. — Zig Ziglar
When you realize your own magnificence, you will only attract magnificence into your life. — Anita Moorjani
You can always say sorry but the real apology is when you hear the sadness in their voice and see the look in their eyes. And you realize that they have hurt themselves just as much. — Kid Cudi
My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances — Alice Hoffman
When You Realize Image Quotes
When You've lost it all....thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful. — Nikki Sixx
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.
That Moment When You Realize Quotes
What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between. — Robert Motherwell
Delirium: 'What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?' Dream: 'There isn't one.' Delirium: 'Oh. I thought maybe there was.' — Neil Gaiman
I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum. — Kobe Bryant
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator. — J. I. Packer
I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you. — Cassandra Clare
When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind. — Byron Katie
No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.
I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences. — Adam Savage
I'm very used to hurricanes. I'm from Puerto Rico and we have 3 or 4 a year. When you have no power, no light, no email, no place to go, you realize who your loved ones are and where you are in your life at that moment. — Luis D. Ortiz
The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it. — W. J. T. Mitchell
Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you. — Marian Anderson
When You Realise Quotes
If you’re not prioritising your sleep, it’s highly likely you’re not getting enough. When we’re as time-poor as we are these days, sleep tends to be the first thing to be pushed aside. We don’t realise how much we need it and how much stress a lack of it can cause. — Rangan Chatterjee
What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones. — Sharon Creech
In the last two World Cups, I realised that when you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it does not work. — Smriti Mandhana
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why.
When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realisation of desire. — Joseph Murphy
Paul Scholes is just fantastic. When you play alongside him, you realise what a special talent he is. — Michael Carrick
Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that. — Johnny Depp
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.
It's always tough when you lose - you've worked so hard for that moment and it hasn't gone the way you wanted. But you have to realise there's always a bright side, you have to pick yourself up and get ready for the next game. — Maria Sharapova
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. — Gertrude Stein
You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now. — Caryl Churchill
Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'. — Rowan Williams
Sudden Realization Quotes
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 look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. — Nikos Kazantzakis
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is. — Carl Jung
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I always thought someone should do something, until, one day I realised I was Someone.
One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, 'Oh, great, now I'm stuck!' but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk. — Hoda Kotb
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old — Leon Trotsky
In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. — Thomas Merton
Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive. — William S. Burroughs
I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me. — Kenny Loggins
I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us! — Garth Stein
Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it. — Robert McCloskey
One Day You Will Realize Quotes
Feel that your body is like a bundle of flowers. When someone gives you flowers you enjoy their beauty, their purity. But you realize that, one day, the flowers will wither and fade. — Frederick Lenz
The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation. — Marianne Williamson
I promise you that one day you will stand aside and look at your difficult times, you will realize that he was always there beside you. — Thomas S. Monson
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?
One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well being of the people in your life. — Leon Brown
Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed. — Douglas Coupland
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
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.
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
Faith is realizing you always get what you need.
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
Sometimes You Have To Realize Quotes
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. — Mary Tyler Moore
The turning point, I think, was when I really realized that you can do it yourself. That you have to believe in you because sometimes that's the only person that does believe in your success but you. — Tim Blixseth
Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to. — Rebecca Stead
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.
As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have. — Andy Goldsworthy
Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize youve made too much of it, to remember it doesnt define you. — Rachel Held Evans
I don't want to know everything about bands, I want to have some mystique remain because sometimes when you get all of this information you realize that they are just people and that actually takes away a little bit from the aura of somebody. — John Bush
While I was thinking about that, the military, I read a book called On Killing, about the obstacles people have to pulling the trigger in combat. So sometimes you just absorb all this stuff without realizing you were doing research. — Charlie Brooker
There are songs and melody that make you really happy. And there are spiritual gifts that you have - giving these gifts away sometimes gives you that feeling of inspiration. These seconds of awareness make you realize that any second can be your favorite one, and it really is up to you. — Russell Simmons
Sometimes I have good ideas. I love that part of our job. It's a constant process of searching, of exploring stuff, and realizing things. You can be in the middle of the film and it's like, "Oh my God! I think we need to do this! Maybe in this scene she should shave her head!" — Noomi Rapace
I realize that you have to be careful sometimes what you wish for. — Dwyane Wade
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
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
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world. — Fred Rogers
There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent. — Dave Barry
When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete. — Prince
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill
When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money. — Alanis Obomsawin
I remember when I fell from my first bike:
There were no 'Are you okays?' and rarely 'Are you alrights?'
Just dirt in my pockets, handful of gravel...
That's when I realized that getting up is only half the battle. — Big K.R.I.T.
Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. — James A. Garfield
One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect. — William Carlos Williams
When you learn a little, you feel you know a lot. But when you learn a lot, you realize you know very little. — Jay Shetty
The first thing you realize when you make a bunch of money is that you’re still the same person. — Naval Ravikant
When you deal with fear and hardship, you realize that you’re capable of dealing with fear and hardship. This gives you a new perspective: the confidence that when bad things happen, you will find ways to handle them. — Jay Shetty
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. — Nora Ephron
When I was little, like Maleficent, I was told that I was different - and I felt out of place, and too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And then one day I realized something, something I hope you all realize. Different is good. — Angelina Jolie
When asked where God is, people point towards the sky or some far and distant region: no wonder then that He does not manifest Himself! Realize that He is in you, with you, behind you, and all around you; and He can be seen and felt everywhere. — Sathya Sai Baba
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. — Agatha Christie
When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am. — Andrew Shue
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined. — Paulo Coelho
I think when you think about immigration, what we need to do is realize that that human capital, if put in a place to succeed, will literally sacrifice everything. — Chamath Palihapitiya
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world. — Zayn Malik
When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it. — John Polkinghorne
The joy of a psychedelic is when you have the balls to go into the darkness, and all of a sudden you realize that the darkness was a complete illusion. All the darkness and negativity and spooky shit and guilt and fear and crap you thought was inside you, and all the bad things you thought you’ve done, and all the things you feel terrible about secretly… you realize that’s nothing. it’s an illusion. The universe loves you, you are completely embraced by the entire universe. You are an incremental part of the functioning of the cosmos. You are an incredible, wonderful, perfect f*cking thing. And when you get a glimpse of that, it’s the greatest feeling ever. Because you’re healed. Because that’s what true healing is, man. True healing is realizing you were never sick in the first place. True healing is realizing you just had a little bit of dust on the windshield man…you brush it off you know that’s all, man. — Duncan Trussell
It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for. — Adam Grant
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected. — Sogyal Rinpoche
When you try to accomplish something, you realize there are only two things you have to leverage – your body and your mind. — Tom Bilyeu
Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying. — Eckhart Tolle
I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger. — Osamu Dazai
When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do. — Stevie Nicks
Time is our most precious asset. When you're young, you are literally a 'time billionaire'—rich with time. Too many people fail to realize the value of this asset until it is gone. Treat time as your ultimate currency—it’s all you have and you can never get it back. — Sahil Bloom
You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift. — Meryl Streep
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