Quotes About Awareness

Of course I did not understand all he said, but I learned more and more to know what he meant

I would not send a poor girl into the world, unarmed against her foes, and ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

Let your eyes be blind to all external attractions, your ears deaf to all the fascinations of flattery and light discourse.—These are nothing—and worse than nothing—snares and wiles of the tempter, to lure the thoughtless to their own destruction.

There's always a chance of death; and it is always well to live with such a chance in view.

There's always a chance of death; and it is always well to live with such a chance in view.' 'Yes

et, de plus, cela vous brouille les idées

I am interested in silences

I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.

When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, 'wake out of the book'.

Cultural humility" acknowledges that doctors bring the baggage of their own cultures—their own ethnic backgrounds along with the culture of medicine—to the patient's bedside, and that these may not necessarily be superior.

My life seems too fast now, so obstructions bother me less than they once did. I am no longer in a hurry to see what is around the next bend. I find myself wanting to backferry, to hover midstream, suspended. If I could do that, I might avoid many things: harsh words, foolish decisions, moments of inattention, regrets that wash over me, like water. (196)

how funny it was that people lived all over the world and you never thought of them until you went someplace new.

There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.

Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

I don't intend to shrink from the truth, because the longer it's postponed, the harder it will be for them to accept it when they do hear it!

This of all the misery in the world and be thankful that you are not sharing in it.

Chipul lui mi-a revenit aÈ™a de limpede în memorie, încât acum È™tiu c? nimeni altcineva nu va putea r?mâne atât de prezent în mine.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

Niciodat? imaginea lui nu mi-a ap?rut atât de limpede. Nu-mi trebuie nici o fotografie de-a lui, îl v?d aÈ™a de bine, aÈ™a de bine.

Tr?geam aerul în piept, ne uitam afar? È™i simÈ›eam c? era vorba de ceva ce nu trebuia întrerupt de cuvinte.

del alma», lo más probable es que a nadie le interese. He llegado

That's how every act of carelessness begins and ends. No one will notice, no one will hear, no one will pay the least bit of attention. Easy to say, but is it true?