Quotes About Awareness

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

You find happiness where you find it.

I think that a real artist should irrevocably and completely dedicate herself to art. ... I have realized that true art gives joy not only to the artist but also to the people, suspending them for a moment from life's sorrows. In this I see the great significance of art, and the awareness of this became the aim of my life. ...

figuring out who you are is the whole part of the human exprience

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won't happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live.

I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.

I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a child. But I can't remember seeing a newspaper without a rape or molestation charge in it somewhere, and when I ask groups how many people know someone personally with a history of molestation, almost always, every hand in the room goes up.

Death was just as close, but not behind him; it was everywhere. It was inescapable; he felt death's physical presence—as if death itself were something alive. Like in the old pictures, a creature that can hide behind a bed of asters or behind a baby carriage and can come out and touch you.

Make sure you keep crawling, George. Don't think you've been discovered. Lots of guys were discovered that way, because they were imagining they'd already been discovered and then did something foolish.

Noch hatte keine Schuld ihre Helligkeit getrübt, keine Ahnung, dass das Herz unter dem Druck des Lebens sich auf allerlei einlassen muss, was es dann später vorgibt, nicht begriffen zu haben- aber warum hat es dann so bang und hastig geschlagen?-, [...]

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, 'Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day. You may hurry and scurry, And flurry and worry, You've lost them forever, Forever and aye.

Now I say, that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it; you did right my boy.

They'd jumped into his car and sped off onto the motorway, heading in the wrong direction for ten minutes before they even noticed.

So many people carried such a lot of misery on their backs. You just didn't know what was going on in their lives. Half the time you were too busy to notice anyway.

Just imagine how many judgements we could avoid if there was a better understanding of Autism. (In 'A Place for Everything.' )

It's always about timing. If it's too soon, no one understands. If it's too late, everyone's forgotten.

You either know fashion or you don't.

Loneliness sends you into your body instead of your brain.

That was life, wasn't it? It didn't seem like you were falling.

I was keenly aware that I had nowhere near the challenges facing millions of people around the globe. That I was well aware of this only made me feel worse. To feel immobilized when perfectly aware of your privilege made death by inconsequential traffic incident seem even more desirable.

He was a user of his own consciousness, but he did not have owner privileges. As a result, Paladin felt many things without knowing why.