Quotes About Awareness

Responsibility educates.

External vigilance is the price of liberty.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

Hear carefully when someone is speaking, if you missed it, too bad

He understood everything: He could keep his eyes open and the buffalo wouldn't appear, or close them and it would.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Maybe they're a blessing—those first few misty moments of morning, when you're allowed to forget what your life is really like today.

Wendy Lawton

All those people in their black-and-white worlds - they have no idea what they're missing

We'll never have a true picture of reality; it just doesn't exist. But I'm real, and you're real, and those fiery balls of gas up there are real, and right now that's all I need to know.

Always keep your eyes open. Don't block your own sunshine. Be filled with wonder.

What is essential is invisible to the eye.

There must be two types of choices. Choices you make that seem harmless but can wind up lead to someone's father dying, like deciding to have one more cup of coffee that morning so you need to go out and buy more and then cross the street without looking and make an oncoming car swerve into a telephone pole to avoid hitting you. And the other kind, when you know what you're doing will lead to something either bad or good.

Lean back, tighten abs, keep arms locked, look for a place to land my hands.

Sometimes the universe, it wants us to pause for a moment. To reflect on what's happening in our lives.

I open my eyes and stare at the page. I see the black letters. But I also see the pinks and greens and purples and yellows. I can't say I'm surprised.

Truly being able to see the needs of others around you, that is a rare gift. Only when you embrace it will you start to learn who you are, and begin going after what you really want.

She shakes her head. "No. Other people look. You see. Looking isn't the same as seeing." And with that completely bizarre statement, she gets up and leaves. My mouth falls open a little at the abruptness of it all.

Sometimes the Internet tells you more than you want to know.

We all live as if we are going to live forever. When you know you won't, life looks different.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Looking isn't the same as seeing

I made sure to pay attention to everything I was doing. To be fully in the moment. Because that's all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you. Hopefully most of those moments are wonderful, but of course they won't all be. The trick is to recognize an important one when it happens.

It's sad when the things you continue to do make people question whether you have dementia. They're not inside my brain to hear or see the hallucinations. Would it make them feel better to see me on a foggy day, the type where I curl up under my duvet and hide away from the world? Would that make the disease fit better into the pigeonhole they've allocated it?