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41 " All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. "
― Walt Disney Company
42 " The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. "
― Oscar Wilde
43 " There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that’s one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards. "
― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars
44 " We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one. "
― Tom Hiddleston
45 " I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become. "
― Henry Rollins
46 " If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU. "
― Mandy Hale , The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
47 " Crap.It's all crap.Living is crap.Life has no meaning.None. Nowhere to be found.Crap.Why doesn't anybody realize this? "
― , Ballad of a Shinigami, Vol. 1 (Ballad of a Shinigami, #1)
48 " There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say " I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say " I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am. "
49 " Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather. "
― Alexandre Dumas , The Count of Monte Cristo
50 " If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. "
― John von Neumann
51 " Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential. "
― Jeannette Walls , The Glass Castle
52 " Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. "
― Og Mandino
53 " My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments—we hear a word that sticks in our mind—or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly—we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger gives us a piece of bread to feed to the mallard ducks in the lagoon; a small child starts a conversation with us in a Dairy Queen—or we have an episode like the one I had with the M&M cars back at the Husky station. And if we were to collect these small moments in a notebook and save them over a period of months we would see certain trends emerge from our collection—certain voices would emerge that have been trying to speak through us. We would realize that we have been having another life altogether; one we didn’t even know was going on inside us. And maybe this other life is more important than the one we think of as being real—this clunky day-to-day world of furniture and noise and metal. So just maybe it is these small silent moments which are the true story-making events of our lives. "
― Douglas Coupland , Life After God
54 " Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that. "
― Alan Moore , Watchmen
55 " There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future. "
― Eleanor Brown , The Weird Sisters
56 " I realize that life is risks. It’s acknowledging the past but looking forward. It’s taking a chance that we willmake mistakes but believing that we all deserve to be forgiven. "
― Carrie Ryan , The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)
57 " Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. "
― C. JoyBell C.
58 " I am so grateful for my troubles. As I reflect back on my life, I have come to realize that my greatest triumphs have been born of my greatest troubles. "
― Steve Maraboli , Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
59 " The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization. "
― Mitch Albom , Have a Little Faith: a True Story
60 " Do you realize that all great literature — " Moby Dick," " Huckleberry Finn," " A Farewell to Arms," " The Scarlet Letter," " The Red Badge of Courage," " The Iliad and The Odyssey," " Crime and Punishment," the Bible, and " The Charge of the Light Brigade" — are all about what a bummer it is to be a ...human being? "