Realization quotations

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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 Albom99

◆ For years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?

- Anne Graham99

◆ All good work requires self-revelation.

- Sidney Lumet99

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

- Judy Collins99

◆ Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.

- Cecelia Ahern99

◆ Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every day—while I am standing still. I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.

- Alan Moore99

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

- Sue Grafton99

◆ 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 Lehane99

◆ In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.

- Jared Diamond99

◆ I just realized my reality, and I'd like to say No Thanks. I'm going back to sleep.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate that all thought and pain and awareness came to a standstill. I wasn't miserable anymore: I wasn't anything at all. I was a nothing-- a random configuration of molecules. If my heart still beat I didn't know it. I was aware of one thing only; next to the gaping fact called Death, all I knew was nothing, all I did meant nothing, all I felt conveyed nothing. This was no passing thought. It was a gnawing, palpable emptiness more real than the cold.

- David James Duncan99

◆ Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

- Jean-Paul Sartre99

◆ I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...

- Richard Wright99

◆ Sometimes someone has to hurt you deep enough to make you realize how better your life is without them in it.

- 99

◆ What hurts most about love is when you realize that things between the two of you are over. And that no matter what you do to make it go back, you just can't change things anymore. Because he has moved on and you haven't.

- Bhabes Alvarez99