Quotes About Awareness

È sbalorditivo come le persone diventino generose e accorte appena vengano indotte a rendersi conto di un dovere, un atto di carità, un errore.

La vanidad echa a perder las mejores cualidades. El talento y la bondad nunca pasan inadvertidos y, aunque así fuera, la conciencia de tenerlos y hacer buen uso de ellos debería bastar. Las virtudes quedan ensalzadas por la modestia.

few are the mortals to whom we give this lovely gift; what to you is now so full of music and of light, to others is but a pleasant summer world; they never know the language of butterfly or bird or flower, and they are blind to all that I have given you the power to see.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

Sometimes owls came near to warn of death. Sometimes they just asked people to be careful. Sometimes they were just owls.

This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.

Here I am Where I ought to be

And Patrice thought another thing her mother said was definitely true—you never really knew a man until you told him you didn't love him. That's when his true ugliness, submerged to charm you, might surface.

The present was enough, though my work in the cemetery told me every day what happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough: it becomes your entire history.

Watching him closely after he paid for the books and took the package into his hands, I saw his pupils dilate the way a diner's do when food is brought to the table.

I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

She saw qualities in him still invisible to the world at large.

This statement tallied with Washington's often expressed view that citizens had to feel before they saw—that is, they couldn't react to abstract problems, only to tangible ones.

He followed matters closely but never soiled his hands, so that he could profess ignorance of the whole matter.

He later exhibited an unacknowledged dread of death, and Eliza was perhaps the first to intuit it.

Perhaps out of a self-protective instinct, Bill taught his children to be wary of strangers and even of himself.

With the best intentions, John fed Frank's gambling addiction, even though Frank often did not realize the source of the loans.

I never felt the need of scientific knowledge, have never felt it.

No detail was too trivial to escape his notice, and he often spouted the Scottish adage "Many mickles make a muckle"—that is, tiny things add up.

I observed that he spoke very little indeed, and always in a low and quiet voice.

Rockefeller was intensely aware of the opposite sex yet, knowing of his father's history, kept his impulses under tight control.

Kids don't think about their folks nearly as much as everybody imagines. Parents are just there, like background music at the mall.

I always sit through the credits. I am always the last one out of any theater. I even make a point of being last. I stay in my seat until everyone else has shuffled past. Then I turn my back, too, on the comforting dark.

She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface...