Realisation Quotes

“I've proved my point. I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day. You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed. Why else would you dress up as a flying rat? You had a bad day, and it drove you as crazy as everybody else... Only you won't admit it! You have to keep pretending that life makes sense, that there's some point to all this struggling! God you make me want to puke. I mean, what is it with you? What made you what you are? Girlfriend killed by the mob, maybe? Brother carved up by some mugger? Something like that, I bet. Something like that... Something like that happened to me, you know. I... I'm not exactly sure what it was. Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another... If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice! Ha ha ha! But my point is... My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was, I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you? I mean, you're not unintelligent! You must see the reality of the situation. Do you know how many times we've come close to world war three over a flock of geese on a computer screen? Do you know what triggered the last world war? An argument over how many telegraph poles Germany owed its war debt creditors! Telegraph poles! Ha ha ha ha HA! It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?”
― Alan Moore, Batman: The Killing Joke

“Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.”
― Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life

“I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with new phrases and new goals. And it hurts to become, hurts to find out about the poverty and gaps, the widow and the leavers. It hurts to accept that it hurts and it hurts to learn how easy it is for people to not need other people. Or how easy it is to need other people but that you can never build a home in someone’s arms because they will let go one day and you must build your own.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

“Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage”
― Ramana Maharshi

“It was cold out here in this world beyond childhood.”
― Leslie W.P. Garland, The Bat (The Red Grouse Tales) - A coming of age story involving a search after truth, doubt and a bat!

“Every being, created by God and unspoiled by man, is perfect, strictly defined and autonomous, entirely complete and at the same time with a built-in ability to grow and develop. This is the essence of its dignity and holiness. It is not an embodiment of God’s immense Personality, but only one of the realisations of His perfection.”
― Danail Hristov, The End of the Jesus Era

“A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... my enemy. My enemy.”
― Shaun Hick

“The old longing i had thought dead, rose in me like a flame”
― Sam Selvon

“Sometimes his very existence to me is the existence of love itself”
― Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

“Nevertheless, this is where it begins. The first word appears only at a moment when nothing can be explained anymore, at some instant of experience that defies all sense. To be reduced to saying nothing. Or else, to say himself: this is what haunts me. And then to realize, almost in the same breath, that this is what he haunts.”
― Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

“A hundred times I thought of killing myself, but I still clung to life. That ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most fateful traits, because is there anything more ridiculous than wanting to continue to carry a load you always want to throw off? To despise and yet to feel attached to yourself? In short, to nurse the snake that is gnawing at you until it has eaten away your heart?”
― Voltaire, Candide

“She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above.”
― Lisa Jewell, The Truth About Melody Browne

“And thus was born The Seal Cove Theoretical Society, devoted to chit-chat, observation, current events, gossip, philosophical debate, and the occasional profound speculation, and bound together by friendship and forgiveness, which we all need, even if we deny it.”
― S.W. Clemens, The Seal Cove Theoretical Society

“Realise that, expansion of our consciousness is the highest form of success.”
― Akshay Kulkarni

“Don't run behind the brands, make yourself a Brand.”
― Anupam S Shlok

“I realised how terrible it must be to be at home everywhere for it means to be at home nowhere!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“The realisation has to come from within you. That’s how it becomes self-realisation. So does motivation.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Slate

“Then there was Bryce - the most disturbing of all because I had to admit that I didn't really know him, either. And based on what I'd discovered lately, I didn't care to know anymore. Looking across the table at him, all I got was a strange, detached, neutral feeling. No fireworks, no leftover anger or resurging flutters. Nothing.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen

“Wexler’s mind was a still pond. He could have taught a Buddhist monk how to be in the here and now.”
― S.W. Clemens, The Seal Cove Theoretical Society

“So,' he said wearily,' here we are, with the fate of our immortal world in the hands of an illiterate human.' His laugh was unpleasant as he hung his head, cupping his forehead in a hand, and closed his eyes. 'What a mess.'

Part of me searched for the words to wound him in his vulnerability, but the other half recalled all that he had said, all that he had done, but his head had snapped to the door before he'd kissed me. He'd known Amarantha was coming. Maybe he'd done it to make her jealous, but maybe...

If he hadn't been kissing me, if he hadn't shown up and interrupted us, I would have gone out into that throne room covered in smudged paint. And everyone- especially Amarantha- would have known what I'd been up to. It wouldn't have taken much to figure out whom I'd been with, especially not once they saw the paint on Tamlin. I didn't want to consider what the punishment might have been.

Regardless of his motives or his methods, Rhysand was keeping me alive. And he'd done so even before I set foot Under the Mountain.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“After my lessons,' Rhys went on, 'my mother cleaned my lashings, and as she did, I realised for the first time what it was to be warm, and safe, and cared for. And it didn't sit well.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Mor said quietly, 'Is it so bad- to be his mate? To be a part of our court, our family, tangled history and all?'

I blended the paint in the small dish, the colours swirling together like so many entwined lives. 'No,' I breathed. 'No, it's not.'

I had my answer.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Nesta looked between Rhys and Cassian, then to me. Despair still paled her face, but... she bowed her head. And said to me, 'That was why you painted stars on your drawer.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Rhysand dropped onto the couch beside me at least, loosing a breath. His eyes slid to me. 'If you want to go, then you go, Feyre.'

If I hadn't been already in love with him, I might have loved him for that- for not insisting I stay, even if it drove his instincts mad, for not locking me away in the aftermath of what had happened yesterday.

And I realised- I realised how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I'd been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right.

Rhys's eyes darkened, and I knew he read what I thought, felt. 'You might be my mate,' he said, 'but you remain your own person. You decide your fate- your choices. Not me. You chose yesterday. You choose every day. Forever.'

And maybe he only understood because he, too, had been helpless and without choices, had been forced to do such horrible things, and locked up. I threaded my fingers through his and squeezed. Together- together we'd find our peace, our future. Together we'd fight for it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“It may be your circumstance, but it is not your truth.”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“A nascent part of you is brimming
with possibility and seeks realization.”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“My crowning thoughts come best when I renounce my limitations, reconcile that everything is impermanent, and find peace within”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“Why don't you just call her?
Mitch turned to find Lance standing in the doorway, arms folded across his chest. He sighed and asked is it that obvious?
Lance grinned. You look just like I felt when Kate left me. And trust me when I say, if she loves you, she'll forgive whatever you did. (Chapter 13)”
― Michelle Celmer, The Oilman's Baby Bargain

“It did not escape my notice that you did not deny your love. You merely spoke of not having enough to offer her. I expect if you think about it, you’ll find that the only thing that matters is love. And if you do not come to that realization?” The viscount gave a wry grin. “Then you were never deserving of her, anyway.” Sybil’s father touched the brim of his hat.”
― Christi Caldwell, One Winter with a Baron

“এক সন্ধ্যায় কলেজ স্ট্রিট কফিহাউসে একটা টেবিলের সামনে একা বসে বন্ধুদের জন্য অপেক্ষা করছি। হঠাৎ কবি বিনয় মজুমদার এসে মুখোমুখি বসে বললেন, 'হ্যাঁ মশাই, আমি যা জানি, তা-ই তো আমার জ্ঞান?' সায় দিতেই তিনি তেমনই হঠাৎ উঠে গেলেন। কিন্তু তখনই আমার চমক জেগেছিল। জ্ঞান জিনিসটার সরল ব্যাখ্যা আর কী হতে পারে! এইজন্যই কবিদের বলা হয় ক্রান্তদর্শী। স্তূপাকার জ্ঞানই আমাদের অভিজ্ঞতা। তার থেকে একটুখানি বেছে নিয়ে ভাঙচুর করার ব্যাপারটাই আসলে শিল্প এবং শেষাবধি তার পরিণাম একটা আখ্যান, যা গল্প (fiction) নামে পরিচিত।”
― Syed Mustafa Siraj, সেরা ৫০টি গল্প