Quotes About Awareness

Man is characterized by a number of things - one of 'em is he is the only animal that knows he's going to die someday.

Recent history takes a while to set. People really don't know what just happened. They only figure it out later.

Much of life, he said to me, depends on our being ignorant of reality. If we understood reality, we would never go on.

You have to notice people to be that sure about them.

the child's life had allowed few if any illusions, and she already had an adult awareness that planning and happening were quite different things.

Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling,' she used to say. 'Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?

Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.

I know only, like, five Indians in our whole tribe who have never drunk alcohol. And my grandmother was one of them. Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling, she used to say. Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact? (158)

James tells the crowd that the river is just a few yards from where we stand is all we ever need to believe in. One white woman asks how old James is and I tell her he's seven and she tells me that he's so smart for an Indian boy. James hears this and tells the white woman that she's pretty smart for an old white woman.

Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep

I heard it on the wind. I heard it from the birds. I felt it in the sunlight.

Okay, now you're officially a freak," I said. "Yes, it's a small library. It's a tiny one. But if you read one of these books a day, it would still take you almost ten years to finish." "What's your point?" "The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know." Wow.

The stuff that you hate in others is often the stuff you hate in yourself. But perhaps you can learn something about yourself when this happens. When you are angry at somebody, what does that say about who YOU are?

During one week when I was little, Dad got stopped three times for DWI: Driving While Indian.

books can be both mirrors and windows—mirrors in which readers can see themselves on the pages of literature and thereby know their existence in the world is valid and true, and windows into worlds they might never have imagined.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know." Wow.

The world even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

De repente comprendí que, si hay que tomarse en serio cada momento de un libro, entonces también hay que tomarse en serio cada momento de una vida.

Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody to read it, does it make a sound?

U?ng r??u s? Ä'óng l?i t?m nhìn, kh? n?ng nghe và c?m xúc c?a bà, bà v?n hay nói v?y. T?i sao bà l?i mu?n s?ng ? trên ??i này n?u không th? ch?m vào th? giá»›i b?ng t?t c? các giác quan còn nguyên v?n c?a bà?.

There are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.

I took a job teaching private-school white teenagers how to edit video. They used their newly developed skills to make documentaries about poor brown people in other countries. It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?

Sometimes you don't something is true until you hear it for the first time.