#realizations

I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.' ↗

— Jason Priestley

#been #coming #down #gay #going

I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#coming #different #doing #down #down the road

For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of thirst; for much longer he could have lived in this soft, well upholstered hell, if this had not happened: the moment of complete hopelessness and despair, that most extreme moment, when he hang over the rushing waters and was ready to destroy himself. That he had felt this despair, this deep disgust, and that he had not succumbed to it, that the bird, the joyful source and voice in him was still alive after all, this was why he felt joy, this was why he laughed, this was why his face was smiling brightly under his hair which had turned gray. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#inspirational #profound-realizations #beauty

Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of music, close- ups of the actors' faces, the camera slowly pulling away to let all this sink in for the viewer...but, in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper. ↗

— Silas House

#realizations #life

We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality. ↗

— M.R. Mathias

#m-r-mathias #michael-robb #profound-realizations #quotes-that-make-sense #reader

Later, lying in bed, I wonder if Dena knows about her father. I decide that she probably does, and I imagine how I would feel if I knew that my father was unfaithful to my mother. Then I remember Richard, and I think that marriage might not mean much to Dena. I can't really blame her: She learned about marriage from her parents, just as I did from mine. For all I know, sleeping with Richard is just Dena's way of trying not to be her mother. ↗

— Melissa Bank

#imagination

The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#freedom #happiness #realizations #unhappiness #change

He never told me that he loved me." "Some men don't," she says. "Some men say it all the time and don't mean it." I recognize myself in the latter category, not with Demetri but with one of his predecessors. I sometimes said "I love you" to Josh because I was afraid I didn't; toward the end, I hardly said it at all, and when I did I meant, I WISH I LOVED YOU. ↗

— Melissa Bank

#love

I've been offered proof of God's existence at regular intervals in my life through experiences so profound they've given goose bumps to atheists. ↗

— Jennifer Skiff

#divine #divine-intervention #god #profound-realizations #proof-of-god

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#craving #instinctual #mindful #pausing #potential