Quotes About Awareness

It's dark out, you autistic fuck.

For all we know, we might've already slipped into the future without noticing it.

Renée said it was easier to spot a moose in New Hampshire than a black person. She said she was used to being stared at as if her head were on fire, people had been staring that way for years. The

AROUND FIFTY-EIGHT THOUSAND NONFAMILY CHILD ABDUCTIONS occur each year in America

His own eyes prickle wetly. His blond hair darkens with sweat; pearls of water stand out on his smooth six-year-old forehead. The longer he stares back, the wider the gaze seems to get, like a grin. Her eyes radiate hard spines of heat, which drill into him. Timmy Babson feels punctured, "seen." "Jane!" Timmy screams for his mother, calling for her by her first name for the first time. "Jane, Jane! It's looking

Minutes did not pass, collecting into hours. There was no point in thinking about time in the old way. There was only one moment and then another moment, in a string of moments that went on in a quiet, deadly procession.

Something that doesn't know it's alive obviously can't be expected to know when it's dead.

Why is it so important for us to listen to girls? Because a girl's voice may be the most valuable and most threatened resource she has.

Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination.

Dr. Watson, "You see, but you do not observe.

If you are a parent, teacher, camp counselor, or school resource officer and you see children severely change or restrain their arm behavior around their parents or other adults, at a minimum it should arouse your interest and promote further observation. Cessation of arm movement is part of the limbic system's freeze response. To the abused child, this adaptive behavior can mean survival.

Just as careful listening is critical to understanding our verbal pronouncements, so careful observation is vital to comprehending our body language.

Commandment 2: Observing in context is key to understanding nonverbal behavior.

Commandment 5: When you interact with others, try to establish their baseline behaviors

Gavin de Becker was talking about in his insightful book, The Gift of Fear.

Much like a recovering alcoholic marks every single day they've been sober, recovering fat asses can't help but think back to how little they thought about what they ate.

It makes you less ignorant to actually know what you're talking about, so listen to me.

If you knew it was there, why didn't you just take it before now?" "You would have noticed. You are a smart boy." A lie, and we both knew it.

I got the sense that she was wired into the night itself, aware of every fluctuation of electricity and sound, the reflections in glass and steel.

purchased merely for their entertainment value. I always regarded Wanda as an unsung heroine without whose "nosiness" (I myself think of it as "situational awareness") John List might have continued to evade justice for the rest of his wretched days. Wanda died in 1997 at the age of sixty-five.

There is something about mountains that moves the soul. They arouse a powerful sense of spiritual awareness and a notion of our own transient and fragile mortality and our insignificant place in the universe. They have about them an ethereal, evocative addiction that I find impossible to resist. They are an infuriating and fascinating contradiction. Climbing rarely makes sense but nearly always feels right.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. —Carl Jung

This is a head-warping, mind-opening, brain-cramping concept. To live it is to transform your life as never before.

As I awaken me, I awaken you.