Quotes About Awareness

How can I help change things if I sit by and do nothing?

You aren't aware your clothes are getting wet in the rain.

I'd never waste the hours of light in the darkness of slumber.

What the body knows and what the mind chooses to believe are two different things, after all.

I had always thought it was her way of blinding herself to the messiness of the way we lived. Now I realised it was easier for her mind to go out through the air far above the clouds than to acknowledge the ugliness right before her eyes.

Peony, think of your own feet when you do this. You know how the toes are tucked under and how your mid-foot is folded in on itself? We accomplish this by rolling the bones under the foot as if you were rolling a sock. Can you do that?

Sometimes you think you have all of tomorrow ahead of you,' Mama often said. 'When the sun is shinning, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above.

Joy is a delicious luxury that we experience most cautiously, for tragedy conceals itself around every corner.

recommended to us because he sees lots of

I had always thought it was her way of blinding herself to the messiness of the way we lived. Now I realised it was easier for her mind to go out through the air far above the clouds then to acknowledge the ugliness right before her eyes.

La dicha es un regalo que disfrutamos con cautela ante la certeza de que la tragedia se esconde a la vuelta de la esquina.

It took me me many years to realize that my perceptions at this time was completely wrong.

I'd felt the ruma had magically understood everything that happened, but now I realize his gifts may have less to do with magic than with interpreting the world around him in a magical way.

I think the truth to living fully is to appreciate what we have, day by day, regardless of what we know might come our way.

What could I do, to make the most of this day, whether I was in my own day, or this one? What amazing history was I seeing firsthand? Would I embrace it, instead of crying and whining? Was it in me to be grateful for my situation? Truly in me?

When our actions and choices are based on fear and denial ... Well, nothing good can come of that. Ever.

an awareness of your own worth is the most attractive quality in the world.

All women are mysteries." "Only men think that," said Pearl. "Largely because they're not paying attention.

It was human nature to see only what you want to see, and nothing would change that, no matter what tools people had at their disposal. The truth is only what you think it is.

Never talk to strangers. If someone ever tries to take you, fight with everything you have. Scream as loud as you can. (He'd never told her what to do if the man was too strong and there was no one to hear her screaming.)

I don't believe in regret. If you regret things about your life, then I'll bet that you're not paying attention. Regret is just imagining that you know what would have happened if you took that job in California or married your high school sweetheart or just looked one more time before you stepped out into the street...or didn't. But you don't know; you can't possibly know.

But mainly, people were so wrapped up in their own inner hurricane that they never saw anything outside the storm of themselves.

She felt rather than saw Bruce frowning.

Didn't he know that she was playing him? The funny thing was that they almost never, ever did. And even after they figured it out, they doubted themselves. Wanted to believe they were wrong. Even when there was no denying that they'd been had, you could almost always go back for a second helping.