Realization Quotes (257 Quotes)

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  “Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?”
  “That you seem to be dating my dad?” Jace shrugged. "You’re a little young for him, to be honest.”
  “What?” For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted.”

  Cassandra Clare

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  “Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”

  Iris Murdoch

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  “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”

  Eckhart Tolle

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  “People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.”

  Shannon L. Alder

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  “I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.”

  Melody Beattie

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  “To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.”

  T.F. Hodge

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  “Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.”

  Sarah Dessen

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  “Your inner strength is your outer foundation”

  Allan Rufus

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  “Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.”

  Amit Ray

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  “I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.”

  J. Cornell Michel

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  “Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence.”

  Tony Samara

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  “...fool me once, shame on me…fool me twice…I deserved to get fucked over.”

  Derekica Snake

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  “I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work.
  One way or another, I'm going to make you care about me. Yes, I am, unless your cold attitude kills me first.
  It's only fair, Connor. If I'm going to be miserable, by God, so are you.
  I am not a common wench and I will not be treated like one.”

  Julie Garwood

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  “Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity”

  Tony Samara

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  “It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.”

  Sue Grafton

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  “He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”

  Ray Bradbury

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  “...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.”

  Edith Wharton

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  “Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.”

  Shannon L. Alder

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  “That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.”

  Dennis Lehane

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  “Nothing else you want to do after all your dreams come true.
  You've become numb. You shouldn't have ever stopped dreaming.”

  Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

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  “We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?”

  Mitch Albom

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  “Hard work does not go unnoticed,
  and someday the rewards will follow”

  Allan Rufus

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  “And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.”

  Jack London

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  “I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.”

  Judy Collins

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  “All good work requires self-revelation.”

  Sidney Lumet

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