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Quotes About Awareness

nulla dies felix—call no day fortunate till it be ended.
~ Ford Madox Ford
It is The Way," he said softly. "Take only what ye need. When ye take the deer, do not take the best. Take the smaller and the slower and then the deer will grow stronger and always give you meat. Pa-koh, the panther, knows and so must ye." And
~ Forrest Carter
Granpa said he seen that and so he knowed. Granpa said ye had to understand. But most people didn't want to-it was too much trouble-so they used words to cover their own laziness and called other folks shiftless.
~ Forrest Carter
Love solves nothing, but your love made me appear to myself.
~ Forrest Gander
The subtlety of your visual attention. You could alert me or change the subject with a contraction of your iris.
~ Forrest Gander
only the Holy Spirit permits us to become aware of the gravity of sin and of the tragedy of the loss of the sense of God, and gives the desire for conversion. But our love for mankind cannot be resigned to seeing them deprive themselves of salvation. We cannot directly produce the conversion of souls, but we are responsible for the proclamation of the Faith, of the totality of the Faith and of its demands.
~ Fr. George Rutler
I've always had a passion for tearing the bandages from other people's eyes. I've always insisted that those round me should see things as they are. I suppose it is that I need companionship in despair. I can't understand not despairing.
~ Francois Mauriac
The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet.
~ Francois Mauriac
How strange it is that when life is just beginning for us, and when a little happiness comes our way, no warning voice is heard.
~ Francois Mauriac
I know flies in milk. I know the man by his clothes. I know fair weather from foul. I know the apple by the tree. I know the tree when I see the sap. I know when all is one. I know who labors and who loafs. I know everything but myself.
~ Francois Villon
Uno de los descubrimientos mas extraordinarios de este siglo ha sido el que los pensamientos son tan poderosos como las pilas eléctricas, tan buenos como la luz y tan peligrosos como el veneno. si permitimos que un pensamiento triste o malo se introduzca en nuestra mente es tan arriesgado como dejar que un virus se apodere de nuestro cuerpo. Si se le permite quedarse, es posible que no podamos desprendernos nunca mas de èl.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might sometimes forget that every one else was not so fortunate, and that one who is rich should always be careful and try to remember.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
It had never occurred to his honest, simple little mind that there were people who could forget kindnesses.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
nothing, and Mr. Havisham kept her from suspecting
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
A body 'as to move gentle an' speak low when wild things is about.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
One of her favorite fancies was that on "the outside," as she called it, thoughts were waiting for people to call them.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
But Dickon did not feel the least shy or awkward. He had not felt embarrassed because the crow had not known his language and had only stared and had not spoken to him the first time they met. Creatures were always like that until they found out about you.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
girl rattled on in her good-tempered, homely way, Mary began to notice what she was saying.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
The youngest youngster vibrates with the shock of cannon firing, even though the sound may not be near enough to be heard, answered Coombe. We're all vibrating unconsciously. We are shuddering consciously at the things we hear and are mad to put a stop to, before they go further.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
A body has to move gentle and speak low when wild things are about.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
But, strange as it seemed to him, there were minutes- sometimes half hours- when, without his knowing why, the black burden seemed to lift itself again and he knew he was a living man and not a dead one.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
The obsession which is called Love is an emotion past all explanation. The persons susceptible to its power are as things beneath a spell. They see, hear, and feel that of which the rest of their world is unaware, and will remain unaware for ever.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett