Quotes About Awareness

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.

How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I'd had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.

He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.

My mother was teaching me that the inside of something was not necessarily its outside. Always look carefully, she told me. Look with more than your eyes.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

Everyone should know exactly what everyone else is thinking and then people wouldn't hurt each other so much.

History is personal, Gwen understands that now. All you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork.

For a man tells you who he is the instant you meet him, all you have to do is listen.

Some people know the exact moment when they've lost everything. They can look back and see it plain as day and for the life of them they can't understand why they didn't spot the situation as it was happening.

Seeing has little to do with opening your eyes; it's what you feel inside that counts, it's what you know without anyone telling you.

Do you ever get the feeling that your life isn't really your own, and you've just sort of let things happen to you?

I did my best to pretend it wasn't so. ... I didn't have time to be ill. Now I know you can't run away by ignoring the truth. Truth follows you; it comes in through open windows and drifts under doors.

Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her.

Likely it was true that the flaws you saw in other women you didn't notice in yourself.

The children knew that which you cannot see can be more dangerous than that which is before you.

The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day. If you'd prefer to remain in the dark, I would understand.

I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.

But children can tell when love has been lost, they know when silence means peace and when it's a sign of despair.

She wondered if dreamers knew they were in a dream while it was happening, or if they had no idea that everything around them was purely imagined until the dream had gone.

I am not an idiot. It's just that sometimes there are things that I don't want to know.