Quotes About Awareness

we avoided their swarms by putting one foot in front of another without pause and making noises of our own. We didn't step on anybody who squashed.

I am not unmindful of your thought processes as you speak. I feel the pain in your side, twin to my own. Yes, I know these things and more.

Debit me, one Memento Mori

We spend so much time lying to one another that I decided it would be amusing to say what I really felt. Just to see whether anyone noticed.

If you ignore little things, they become big problems.

The photographs had made him aware how much the street and the buildings meant to him. Like an extended family that he'd taken for granted and ignored, assuming it would always be there. But buildings and roads and spaces were as fragile as human beings, you had to cherish them while you had them.

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

Deeply moved, she poured the tea while they were finishing up. They came into the kitchen to replace the cleaning things, and she handed two cups to Om. Noticing the red rose borders, he started to point out her error, The pink one's for us, then stopped. Her face told him she was aware of it. What? she asked, taking the pink cup for herself, Is something wrong? Nothing, his voice caught . He turned away, hoping she did not see the film of water glaze his eyes.

But that was always the case – people hardly ever saw their children as they really were.

To see someone who does not see is the best way to be intensely aware of what he does not see.

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.

The photograph touches me if I withdraw it from its usual blah-blah: "Technique," "Reality," "Reportage," "Art," etc.: to say nothing, to shut my eyes, to allow the detail to rise of its own accord into affective consciousness.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

those who travel the world hoping to get "blinded by the light" are often blind to the light that's all around them.

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle. —PAUL AUSTER, SMOKE

In other words, Julia still believed in the beneficial effects of tobacco long after her husband had likely died from it. Even grimacing with pain, Grant tracked presidential politics intently.

Grant adopted unusual precautions, returning to the Willard Hotel twice daily for meals and staying indoors at night. When he set eyes on images of John Wilkes Booth, he immediately recognized the sinister horseman who had shadowed his path to the train station and knew that he himself had stood on the death list of intended victims.

He was also uncomfortable around illness, which served as an unpleasant reminder of his own mortality.

Are you going to let this money puff you up? Keep your eyes open. Don't lose your balance.

He was respectful toward his superiors but never awed by them and was always aware of their shortcomings.

Junior welcomed this firsthand exposure to urgent social problems.

When it comes to understanding others," I said, "we rarely tax our imaginations.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. —DONALD RUMSFELD

We need to live our experience as it is and with our eyes open. The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.