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"I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine."
"I was asked on a radio interview what my mission is, and I immediately blurted out, "God realization." God realization is the place where in your heart you take your thoughts and ask yourself, "Are they in harmony with the source I originated from?""
"I was asked on a radio interview what my mission is, and I immediately blurted out, "God realization.""
"Love for yourself, love for the planet, love for each other. Love primarily for God - your number one relationship in life, your relationship to your source. Not something external to you, something that you're a part of, that you are connected to - just meditating on that, staying in that place, the place of God realization."
"The person must be blind, indeed, who can not see, that here on earth a great project, a great plan, is executed, may work on the realization of which we participate as faithful servants."
"There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time."
"I've come to a wonderful realization that is fascinating: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does!"
"Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!"
"Beating a legend is a very good feeling, but internally I was processing the realization that I could compete with anyone."
"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."
"We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction."
"What interests me is the following paradox: of how, precisely in our liberal societies, where no one can even imagine a transcendental cause for which to die, we are allowed to adopt a hedonistic, utilitarian, or even more spiritually egotistical stance - like, the goal of my life is the realization of all my potential, fulfillment of my innermost desires, whatever you want."
"Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission."
"The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain."
"Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization."
"Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization."
"Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth."
"You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared -"
"I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of."
"Merely watching a romantic comedy causes relationship satisfaction to plummet. Apparently, the bitter realization that maybe it could happen to us, but it obviously hasn't and it probably never will, makes our lives seem unbearably grim in comparison."
