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Realization Quotes - Page 14

The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier.

The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier.

Ben Huh
Book, Simple, Realization

True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

Bayard Taylor
Sublime, Realization, World
Bayard Taylor (1864). “The Lands of the Saracen, Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.120

Achievements of life are momentary, but realizations are longer lasting.

Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
Achievement, Realization, Revelations

To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.

Archibald MacLeish
Opposites, Acting, Realization

World peace is the most essential outer realization of our time.

Anodea Judith
Peace, Essentials, Realization

I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine.

Anne Lamott
Realization, Alive, Offers

The more aspiration is partial realization.

Anna Cora Mowatt
Realization, Aspiration

If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?

Andrew Solomon
Cutting, People, Realization
Source: andrewsolomon.com

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death. And yes, I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them. The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

Amos Oz
Integrity, Curiosity, Realization
Source: logger.believermag.com

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

Alan Greenspan
Realization, Starks, Deficit
Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.218, Penguin

Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.

Adrienne Rich
Mother, Realization, States
Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.

Adrian Tomine
Character, People, Realization
Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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