Quotes About Awareness

I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but real in spite of that. Until one day, one day when I may even have been in my teens, I knew with a dim sort of hole in my insides that now I didn't believe it anymore.

That was her way. She carried not noticing to an extreme. Not noticing, not intruding, not suggesting.

I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but real in spite of that. Until one day, one day when I may even have been in my teens, I knew with a dim sort of hole in my insides that now I didn't believe it anymore.

Lies of that nature could be waiting around in the corners of a person's mind, hanging like bats in the corners, waiting to take advantage of any kind of darkness.

Life is always so full. Getting and spending we lay waste to our powers. Why do we let ourselves be so busy and miss doing things we should have, or would have, liked to do?

How can you get your finger on it, feel that life beating? It was more a torment than a comfort to think about this, because I couldn't get hold of it at all. I

The thing about life, Harry had told Lauren, was to live in the world with interest. To keep your eyes open and see the possibilities - see the humanity - in everybody you met. To be aware. If he had anything at all to teach her it was that. Be aware.

Getting and spending we lay waste our powers. Why do we let ourselves be so busy and miss doing things we should have, or would have, liked to do? Remember

Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize. I don't believe so.

I looked at the rusty-bottomed bread tin swiped too often by the dishcloth, and the pots sitting on the stove, washed but not put away, and the motto supplied by Fairholme Dairy: The Lord is the Heart of Our House. All these things stupidly waiting for the day to begin and not knowing that it had been hollowed out by catastrophe.

On the way home he had explained that she wasn't his type. And she had felt too humiliated to retort – or even to be aware, at that moment – that he was not hers.

We had a hard life but we didn't know it...We had power....it's a power of transformation you have, when you're stuffed full of fear and eagerness - not a thing in your life can escape being momentous. A power you never think of losing because you never know you have it.

Hay algo que creo que deberías saber. Esta puede ser una de las frases más desagradables que puede escuchar una persona. Existen muchas probabilidades de que lo que deberías saber te resulte gravoso, y de que se insinúe que otras personas han tenido que soportar la carga mientras que tú te has librado todo ese tiempo.

She doesn't mistake that for reality, and neither does she mistake anything else for reality, and this is how she knows that she is sane. Meneseteung

Le truc, dans la vie, avait expliqué Harry à Lauren, était de vivre avec intérêt. D'ouvrir l'oeil pour voir les possibilités - voir l'humanité - qui existait chez chacun de ceux qu'on rencontrait. Être à l'écoute. S'il avait quoi que ce soit à lui apprendre, c'était cela. Être à l'écoute. (p.212)

I understood what a mysterious and oppressive obligation I had, to be happy, and how I had almost failed it, and would be likely to fail it, every time, and she would not know.

A skunk is walking by. Skunks don't hurry or hide. The dogs and cats pretend not to notice them. It is best not to.

There are facts can poison you dead as arsenic. I have long known this to be true. There are facts can get you drunker than sipping whiskey straight.

The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down at her skirt and see the dark traces of spilled vodka or whiskey. The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people'.

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. I think she listens, she said, too softly to be heard.

By the time I was eighteen, she had sat me down and detailed her alcoholism, its onset and aftermath. She believed that by sharing such things I might be able to avoid them or, if need be, recognize them when they occurred. By talking about them to her children, she was also acknowledging that they were real and that they had an effect on us too, that things like this shaped a family, not just the person they happened to.