I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar. It's just different instrumentation.
An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.
One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.
This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.
Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.
Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.
The only thing worse than feeling that you are going to die is the realization that you probably won't.
She wondered what she thought of herself, and came to the realization that she felt mostly indifference towards her entire life.
All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.
The way in which a society organizes the life of its members. . . is one "project" of realization among others. But once the project has become operative in the basic institutions and relations, it tends to become exclusive and to determine the development of the society as a whole.
One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.
If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization.
One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment - only you must first realize this.
They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike. For an instant the wordless shock of his realization seemed more than he could bear.
He knows what He is doing with me. I cannot always understand His way, but I am content in the realization that He knows what is best. That is surrender.
Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.
Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed the place and said he'd come again, that was enough. If one out of ten was a repeat customer, then the business would survive. To put it another way, it didn't matter if nine out of ten didn't like my bar. This realization lifted a weight off my shoulders. Still, I had to make sure that the one person who did like the place.
Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.
World peace is the most essential outer realization of our time.