Quotes About Awareness

La plupart des gens ne meurent qu'au dernier moment ; d'autres commencent et s'y prennent vingt ans d'avance et parfois davantage.

A wise man looks the other way.

Sophie, as I'd noticed on other occasions, needed time to get her emotions started. Not that she was cold. When it hit her, it was like a ton of bricks, but she needed time.

A medida que te quedas en un sitio, las cosas y las personas se van destapando, pudriéndose, y se ponen a apestar a propósito para ti.

J'aurais bien voulu qu'ils fussent ailleurs mes pieds pour le moment, parce que de l'autre côté de la devanture, nous étions observés par les gens en file que nous venions de quitter dans la rue. Ils attendaient que nous eussions fini, nous, de bouffer, pour venir s'attabler à leur tour. C'est même à cet effet et pour les tenir en appétit que nous nous trouvions nous si bien éclairés et mis en valeur, à titre de publicité vivante.

There's never enough time, it's true, not even for thinking of yourself. Well

Je moet eerst een diepe walging van de anderen krijgen voordat je zelf precies weet waartoe je in staat bent.

Be ready for the gift you least expect. Every day. It's the only way to live….

Why do you always talk about death?" "Because it's part of us," Quinn said softly "Part of our lives.

life was in the moment, and love was in the moment, where ever you happen to be.

was sleeping, but my heart kept vigil.

Fear is the gift. It's how I will stay alert and alive.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people...

Being different was my cross to bear, but being aware of it was my compensation.

While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark. . . Sometimes it is as difficult to know what the past holds as it is to know the future, and just as an answer to a riddle seems so obvious once it is revealed, it seems curious to me now that I passed through all those early moments with no idea of their weight.

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it ourselves - so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which delight, and for which to be thankful.

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves–so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, and for which to be thankful

For a moment Anne´s heart fluttered queerly and for the first time her eyes faltered under Gilbert´s gaze and a rosy flush stained the paleness of her face. It was as if a veil that had hung before her inner consciousness had been lifted, giving to her view a revelation of unsuspected feelings and realities.

Hay tanto en el mundo para nosotros, si tenemos los ojos para verlo, el corazón para amarlo y las manos para acercárnoslo, tanto en hombres y mujeres, en arte y literatura, tanto en todas partes con que deleitarnos y de lo cual quedar agradecidos! Ana de la isla.

Consciousness consists in a being becoming objective to itself; … it is nothing apart, nothing distinct from the being which is conscious of itself.

In the object which he contemplates … man becomes acquainted with himself.

Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.