occurs to me
Examples
It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.
It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.
It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.
Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.
It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.
Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.