"You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe."
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"Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life."
"It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit."
"There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves."
"With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions."
"We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems."
"I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality of life than quantity."
"Few people realize the number of things that are possible."
"Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke."
"Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal."
"Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end."
"May we awaken from forgetfulness and realize our true home."
"It is precisely when you are loved a lot that you might realize a second loneliness which is not to be solved but lived. This second loneliness is an existential loneliness that belongs to the basis of our being. It's where we are unfulfilled because only God can fill us."
"Whenever you note the time on the clock, realize that it is now—right now—later than it has ever been."
"I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it's not where you'll find your sense of completion."
"It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives."
"Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners."
"Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist."
"And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment."
"Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep on asserting that it's okay to be sick?"