Quotes About Awareness

On the contrary, she was aware only of a sort of timelessness, as though it was all part of a plan, a predestined design, conceived the day she was born. What was happening to her had been meant to happen, what was going to go on happening. Without any recognizable beginning, it did not seem possible that it could ever have an end.

She stared at him, accepting for the first time the fact that personal tragedy is just that. Personal. Your own existence could fall to pieces but that did not mean that the rest of the world necessarily knew about it, or even bothered." ? Rosamunde Pilcher, The Empty House

It occurred to her then that people went on living until somebody told you they were dead. Perhaps it was a pity that anybody ever told anybody anything.

There was, Julia Prescott decided, only the finest razor-edge between depression and despair. Depression had been constant for weeks, familiar, creeping up on her like a prowler in tennis shoes. But despair was the dreaded spectre behind the closed door, springing forth just when you least expected it. ['Through the Eyes of Love']

She stared at him, accepting for the first time the fact that personal tragedy is just that. Personal. Your own existence could fall to pieces but that did not mean that the rest of the world necessarily knew about it, or even bothered.

Cliffords, were not the only people to realise that there were terrible times ahead.' 'What happened to your

Tardó en darse cuenta. ¿Cómo iba a advertir el paso del tiempo si su transcurso no le había dejado nada?

If u cant tell how u feel now and hold on to that than your left not knowing what could have happened. Dont wait and be too late let yourself out now.

A man cannot be blamed for ignorance if he has never been taught.

We may avoid shame if we choose, for shame seldom takes us unawares but has its warning cry, and we can hear that cry as clearly as we can hear the coming of the north wind... The man lying in the mud hadn't heard the coming of the north wind.

Wasting time changes the nature of time.

He couldn't deceive himself. He always looked things in the eye and never pretended that what he saw was not really happening.

Ho notato questo negli esseri umani; l'essere a conoscenza di un segreto li fa sorridere. E' il sorriso del potere.

No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.

dozed off with my consciousness slightly ajar.

the act of looking and being looked at.

I have, by God's grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God's mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.

Never ask a question if you don't know the answer.

Awareness of the settler-colonialist context of US history writing is essential if one is to avoid the laziness of the default position and the trap of a mythological unconscious belief in manifest destiny. The

The Bureau of Indian Affairs, without Indigenous peoples' consent, invested Indigenous funds in railroad companies and various municipal and state bonds. For instance, the Cherokee national fund and the Muskogee Creek Orphan Fund were so invested. Indigenous leaders were well aware of these practices but were powerless to stop them.

Surviving genocide, by whatever means, is resistance: non-Indians must know this in order to more accurately understand the history of the United States.

have grown up with racism all my life. When I was a child, watching cowboys and Indians on TV, I would root for the cavalry, not the Indians. It was that bad. I was that far toward my own destruction."23

For the first time in my life, I understand the meaning of the word swoon. And I don't like it. Swooning is dangerous, helpless, and it doesn't feel so great.

If you want to know where your heart is, follow your mind when it wanders.