Quotes About Awareness

when we are angered by the sins of   others, we should beware lest a temptation of an opposite kind should   take possession of our minds.

men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God. Frequent

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God....Without knowledge of God there is no knowledge of self.

lack of firm knowledge rarely equates with complete ignorance.

When we expand our thinking, we expand who we are as human beings: the perspective from which we view the world, and the concepts and values we use to guide our choices.

providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each

It was at the highest point in the arc of a bridge that I became aware suddenly of the depth and bitterness of my feelings about modern life, and of the profoundness of my yearning for a more vivid, simple, and peaceable world.

[An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

A man is what he does with his attention.

Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

They were brought up in these ruins and no longer notice them.

Letters] never failed to surprise and please him, because they reminded him that he existed in other people's thoughts.

Sense of Wonder (...) may be defined as a shift in perspective so that the reader, having been made suddenly aware of the true scale of an event or venue, responds to the revelation with awe.

I believe in evil because I have touched it, and it has touched me.

You must be careful where you step. And you must be ready for what you might find.

If you listen hard enough, there's almost no such thing as silence: there's just noise that isn't very loud yet.

THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES, only patterns we do not see.

I have found in the past that what passes for coincidence is usually life's way of telling you that you're not paying enough attention.

Being clever is not just about how much you know, but about knowing that you really don't know very much at all.

The beam caught the bowed head of Angel. He glanced up into Bobby Sciorra's eyes and smiled. Sciorra looked puzzled for a moment and then his mouth opened in slow-dawning realization. He was already turning to try to locate Louis when the darkness seemed to come alive around him and his eyes widened as he realized, too late, that death had come for him too.

They listen, the dead. They're always listening. What else is there for them to do?

Instead, there was only the kind of silence that comes when someone takes away a clock to be repaired and after a time you become aware of its absence because its gentle, reassuring tick is gone and you miss it so.

although his physician had advised him not to be overly concerned about forgetting facts and names, and he should begin to worry only if he stopped noticing that he couldn't remember them—if, in essence, he forgot that he was forgetting.