#realizations

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating. ↗

— Leonard Orr

#bathtub #every #every time #fantastic #get

The thing was, the places of your life, like the clothes you wore and the car you drove and the friends and associates you had, were a product of the way you lived. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#inspirational #inspirational-life #realizations #attitude

Now that it's over, I wish I could have all the bad stuff back... just so I could have the good. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#travis-maddox #beauty

Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn’t see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least expected it. ↗

— Donna Freitas

#life #realizations #life

I remembered my father's speech about what Jack was capable of and wasn't; he'd said, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW MUCH JACK LOVES YOU. I thought about all the girls he'd stopped loving; it was like he had a timer, and at a certain point it buzzed. ↗

— Melissa Bank

#love

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#arrogance

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. ↗

— M. Ageyev

#dreams #realizations #dreams

All I really, really want to do is find a very, very fine chocolate store that I can walk into and then figure out how in the world one manages to pick out just a few chocolates out of all those very many chocolates! If I am one day able to walk into a fine chocolate store and know for certain which chocolates I want, when that happens, I will believe myself to be accomplished! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#chocolates #humor #humour #life #life-and-living

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. ↗

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#life #life-lessons #realizations #inspirational

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

— Richelle Mead

#flaws #love #realizations #sydney-sage #love