Realizations Quotes

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.

I remembered reading somewhere that if you smile at something, it automatically makes you happier.

I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.

I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.

You live your life without realizing these things until you take yourself away from the usual stuff, even for a brief moment…only then do you see your life in a different perspective.

Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is…or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that’s what I see when I look back at my life. An accumulation of everything I went through.

Change rarely happens in doses large enough to choke you. Everyday you swallow a little more and expect a little less.

The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.

In another 2,400 years, even Socrates, the most well-known genius of the century, might be forgotten. The future will erase everything-there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.