Quotes About Awareness

Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

Live deep instead of fast.

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.

What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.