Before a dream is realized the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way.
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.
You are a gift to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you have to do is find it. Do not give up on yourself, or the truths you have realized. Do not give in to those who could crush your dreams like nutshells. And never turn away from forever love.
I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.
And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.
Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.
Anyone who wasn't half-stoned on pain meds would have instantly realized what a really bad idea this plan was, but since that didn't include me, I didn't worry about it.
Making movies wasn't really an immediate thought, where I was raised. I was going to be a lawyer, and I thought I would just draw. So, I was sketching all the time and I realized that I needed some outlet, and then I found animation.
I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.
When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.
Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.
Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.
I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.
Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.
I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.
And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.
Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.
Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.