Quotes About Awareness

Melancholy is to know the beauty of life, and to know it must end.

What the world needs now is a conscience.

I just enjoy the moment I'm in. For me, life is a whole experience, not just a series of isolated moments. It's like submerging yourself into a warm bath rather than sticking your toe under the faucet. It's the totality of life.

thoughtlessness is a bad advisor.

Just because you met somebody, doesn't mean to say you know anything about them.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

Women are the ones who knows what's going on,' she said quietly . 'They are the ones with eyes. Have you not heard of Agatha Christie?

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Sometimes she thought that the people overseas had no room in their heart for Africa, because nobody had ever told them that African people were just the same as they were

There was so much suffering in Africa that it was tempting just to shrug your shoulders and walk away. But you can't do that, she thought. You just can't.

Many waters cannot quench love: the anthem's setting remained in her ears, repeating itself; a tune so powerful that it might gird one against the disappointments of life, rather than make one aware that our attempts to subdue the pain of unrequited love - of impossible love, of love that we are best to put away and not to think about - tended not to work, and only made the wounds of love more painful.

There's a difference, I think, between falling in love and knowing it.

The trouble with the world today, she thought, was that people were not prepared to stand up to bad behaviour. They looked away

Hospitals were to her a memento mori in bricks and mortar; an awful reminder of the inevitable end that was coming to all of us but which she felt was best ignored while one got on with the business of life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?

All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to realize it, or are too forgetful to remember it, that we have the confidence to build something that is meant to last.

I thought the definition of an educated person was one who at least knows what's in the great books he or she hasn't read" (p. 169).

But we are all fortunate in one way or another. The task for most of us is to identify in what way that is, would you not agree?

Dr. Svensson had once counselled him to think of the things you're doing rather than the things you did.

and with it would come that wonderful, unmistakable smell of rain, that smell of dust and water meeting that lingered for a few seconds in the nostrils and then was gone, and would be missed, sometimes for months, before the next time that it caught you and made you stop and say to the person with you, any person: That is the smell of rain, there, right now.

You do not have to read a book to understand how the world works. You just have to keep your eyes open.

How many of us dig our own graves, thought William. We dig them with vigour and determination, unaware of the implications, but with all the conviction of those who do not really know what they are doing, who are impervious to the dangers that others can see so clearly.

The world is full of twenty-year-olds, she thought, all of them blind. Obed

sorrow at the realisation that food was finite.