Quotes About Awareness

I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.

It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.

Throughout my whole life money has always been a problem. But I didn't realize that we were poor when we were kids!

I think it's important to be involved with charities that don't necessarily reflect what you're dealing with in your life.

The more I trust my intuition and act on its wisdom, the more extraordinary my life becomes.

I try to be mindful in my daily life, trying to stay more present and have more intention. It keeps me calm, and I feel less whipped about by my emotions.

The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

Keep you enemies in front of you.

Secret Services are everywhere. They are part of out daily life. We just don't really care. We are not concerned at all.

I went through a normal kind of late teens, early 20s drinking, but it was a choice I made, because I didn't think it was very good for my life.

This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it

At every stage in life you think about death. But teenagers especially are sort of invincible. They're not supposed to be thinking about dying yet, or else they'd be too afraid to live.

apart from the few who make a professional specialty of arguing about religion, secularist thinkers are generally unacquainted with anything but absurd caricatures of traditional religious ideas and arguments, are utterly unaware that anything other than these caricatures exist, and thus don't bother to look for anything but straw men to attack.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

When people are finding meaning in things - beware.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.

There is always something about them that evades the understanding, and I have tried to remain aware that, as Paul Valéry has put it, "The power of verse is derived from an indefinable harmony between what it says and what it is. Indefinable is essential to the definition.

Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.

Often eating took considerable extra time, since he could hardly see his food, groping with a fork or spoon, enforcedly omnivorous. "Blind men wear spotted pants," Dorothy teased, telling him to wash his...