Quotes About Awareness

He had learned long ago that life became much easier if you ignored what was not right before you.

Does the devil know he is a devil?

You have to learn to love the small things in life... you have to love the small things, when you've nothing else.

It is healthy to be disabused of our self-deceptions every now and then, even if it hurts.

Armour is part of a state of mind in which you admit the possibility of being hit

It always catches people by surprise, the moment of their death, even when they should see it coming. They always think they're special, somehow expect a reprieve. But no one's special.

In the end … the only thing a man can really do … is pick his moment. Watch for the opening, and recognise it when it comes, and seize it.

It all slips by so fast. Slips by and you hardly notice, like leaves on the water. Savour the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

The older you get, the more swiftly the years pass. It's easy to forget how quickly people die.

Knowledge isn't always a gift, d'you see? Sometimes it's better we be swaddled in the comforting darkness of ignorance.

You have to be grateful for the small things, when any minute might be your last.

The best lessons one teaches oneself.

The more you learn, the more you realise how little you know. Still, the struggle itself is worthwhile. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.

Cuanto más se aprende, más cuenta se da uno de lo poco que sabe. Aun así, el propio esfuerzo compensa. Al fin y al cabo, el conocimiento es la raíz de todo poder.

La ignorancia es la más dulce de las medicinas.

Fencing is one thing,' he said. 'Actual violence quite another. Few of us are made for it. It is healthy to be disabused of our self-deceptions every now and then, even if it hurts.

An open mind is like to an open wound,' growled Glokta. 'Vulnerable to poison. Liable to fester. Apt to give its owner only pain.

It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk.

Everything frightens me, and it's well that it does. Fear is a good friend to the hunted, it's kept me alive this long. The dead are fearless, and I don't care to join them.

Oh yes, you understand better than most how this will work. Knowledge is so often the antidote to fear. But not here. Not now.

I know you like to think you're jolting about helpless in a runaway cart, carried off to who-knows-where with no say in the matter, but if you look down, you might see you're holding the reins.

Armor... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.

I heard you had all the brains around here but Leo, why didn't you tell me how very handsome he is?' 'Well …' Leo cleared his throat. 'I suppose that's not the sort of thing a man notices …

I don't see what I want to see, I see what I need to see. If you don't like it, see something else