I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

Sometimes, you sit down to write a song, you don't realize what it's going to mean to somebody other than yourself.

I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

I think I'm working on being a lot more positive in my everyday life because I realize comments and things can hurt.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

It takes a long time, I think, to get to the place where you realize you may love the hairstyle that somebody else has.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

You've gotta realize this - you could be working at Burger King or working for the biggest wrestling company in the world.

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

I never get upset about what I read in the newspaper. I realize that every human being can make a difference in this world.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

I don't think what people realize is I've been through years and years and years of training - piano, dance, vocal lessons.

The first and perhaps most important thing to realize about being happier in life is to stop trying to be so happy in life.

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

If you have the chance to realize some of these dreams you had as a kid, and you have the opportunity, why not pursue that?

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

To be quite honest with you, a lot of people don't realize that Nikki Sixx and I did Brides of Destruction after the lawsuit.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected.

I feel like, when people realize that they are the only person they need to impress, everybody's life will be a lot smoother.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

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