"We all know what we're doing. Whether we realize it or not."

-- Maureen Johnson

#Realizing Quotes

“Perhaps itâ€™s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are whatâ€™s important in life.”
“To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.”

Source : "Conversation with Kenzaburo Oe" by Harry Kreisler, "Conversations with History", Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, globetrotter.berkeley.edu. April 16, 1999.
“It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.”

Source : William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”
“'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.' 'Yes, blind is just about what they are'”
“Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.”
“I didn't to be like, "I have to write a new album. I need to get creative."”
“The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.”
“Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.”

Source : Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The Progress of a Biographer”

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