#realization

Do you often wonder,” she continued, desperately hoping her questions would win Vasily over, “what might have been had his gaze fallen upon some other miserable wretch? Yes, you would have been destitute, starving in the streets, scraping for your next meal…but even beggars are free. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#ilyse-charpentier #realization #what-if #freedom

Most people don't need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves! ↗

— Lisa Gardner

#realization #life

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#realization #love

So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone's family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane." - Zane, page 400 ↗

— Stacey Kade

#love #realization #age

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. ↗

— Richard Wright

#men

With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you. ↗

— Osho

#consciouness #enlightenment #evolution #guru #healing

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#dreams #equals #grandest #imagination #innovation

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. ↗

— Alan Watts

#defined #everything #impossible #loving #other

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together. ↗

— David Guterson

#author #away #beyond #change #figure

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#anarchy #civilization #clear #cost #four