"It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself."
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"I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache."
"Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned."
"The older I become the more I realize of that I have to work very hard to reproduce what I search: the instantaneous. The influence of the atmosphere on the things and the light scattered throughout."
"Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony"
"It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live."
"As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s."
"Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do."
"Faith is realizing that you always get what you need."
"I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize."
"Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before."
"We have a natural creative ability and it is very important to realize this."
"The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes."
"When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without."
"As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were."
"That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless"
"Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed."
"Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them."
"You have to realize the truth of biologist Julian Huxley's idea that 'Life is just one damn relatedness after another' "So you must have the models, and you must see the relatedness and the effects from the relatedness."
"I no longer merely confess that I am the righteousness of Christ. I realize that with His DNA in me through His blood, I could be nothing else. I realize the attributes of His DNA reside in me - whether dormant or active."