Quotes About Awareness

There is no more slippery task than to refrain from thinking of something.

There are times when not thinking requires all of one's concentration.

It was right, what they said: Enlightenment was merely the truth at the correct time.

One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.

Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you.

Bee. Nothing happens to you. You happen to everything.

Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

Mornings come, whether we want them or not.

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy.

But there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have, and that was more than I'd ever had in my life.

She fell silent, overcome at what humans, in their ignorance, had done.

The truth doesn't need you to recognize it, young man, for it to be so. You need the truth to recognize you.

Claro que não sabes (...) E nem sequer queres ver o que está posto na mesa à tua frente. Homens. Se estivesse a chover sopa, estarias lá fora com um garfo.

Of all the people I could lie to, I'd always been best at lying to myself.

There was, she suddenly saw, many ways to be raped.

In a moment all became clear to me. How stupid could I have been?

Your wolf still looks out of your eyes. You think that if you stand perfectly still, no one will see you.

Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.

You've learned to guard your thoughts so well, you're almost afraid to let yourself know what they are.

enlightenment was merely the truth at the correct time.

That little knife of knowing stabbed into her at every step.

Then I thought about it and wondered if I would ever reach a place in which I ceased finding out how stupid I could be.

La mort nous guette et elle est toujours assurée de sa prise. Il ne sert à rien d'y songer sans cesse, mais, dans nos entrailles dans nos os, nous savons tous qu'elle est là. Tous sauf les humains.