Quotes About Awareness

Apa yang kau tangkap dari suara hujan Dari daun-daun bugenvil yang teratur mengetuk jendel. Apakah yang kau tangkap dari bau tanah Dari ricik air yang turun di selokan

Hujan mengenal baik pohon, jalan, dan selokan – swaranya bisa dibeda-bedakan; kau akan mendengarnya meski sudah kaututup pintu atau jendela. Meski pun sudah kaumatikan lampu. Hujan, yang tahu benar membeda-bedakan, telah jatuh di pohon, jalan, dan selokan – menyihirmu agar sama sekali tak sempat mengaduh waktu menangkap wahyu yang harus kau rahasiakan

If you are squeamish Don't prod the beach rubble.

Let's take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people's joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does she expose the bad feelings that get hidden, displaced, or negated under public signs of joy? Does bad feeling enter the room when somebody expresses anger about things, or could anger be the moment when the bad feelings that circulate through objects get brought to the surface in a certain way?

Rolling eyes = feminist pedagogy.

Things never quite turn out the way you imagine, do they," Miss Branson said, her voice low and almost amused in tone. "You have to pay attention to the moment in your hands, before it's gone.

How often do we find love in the world, that it should be set aside so thoughtlessly?

Don't go looking for trouble, it will find you soon enough without you shouting out an invitation.

Give children a clock to live by," Mrs. Lee said. "So they know what's coming, when it's coming, how long it will last. They'll take comfort in that knowing.

Young people today (finally, I'm old enough to use that cliché) seem to have no real conception of how bad things were for women and, more important, could be again.

But I knew I was there for a reason. There are no coincidences. Just opportunities you've been too dumb to take, doors you've been too blind to step through.

To let go of the self is the highest calling of the self, something that few achieve. And something that every self, whether she knows it or not, aspires

Most people wouldn't know the truth if it bit them in the ass and paid for the privilege.

Consider the possibility,'" I said, quoting Silette, "'that what we perceive as the future has already happened, and intuition is only a very good memory.

Some people, I saw, had drowned right away, and some people were drowning in slow motion, drowning a little bit at a time, and would be drowning for years. And some people, like Mick, had always been drowning, they just didn't know what to call it until now.

Constance helped Mick see that there are never any sides. Only things we understand and things we have chosen to pretend we don't understand. Only those we admit we love and those we pretend we don't recognize.

There are no coincidences. Just opportunities you're too dumb to see, doors you've been too blind to step through.

We can take it. Not everyone can. But I'd rather have the truth, ugly as it is, over every beautiful lie in the world. Because I seen too many times where the lies end up. Here. There.

There are no coincidences. Just opportunities you're too dumb to see, doors you've been too blind to step through. And for every one you miss there's some poor fucking soul who's been left behind, waiting for someone to come along and show him the way out.

Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?

Men were so obtuse about things they didn't want to think about it.

Men were so obtuse about things they didn't want to think about.

May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.

Kitchen (and people) maintenance is not very complicated. It boils down to two basic precepts: Handle fragile things with care, and clean up your messes as soon as possible. Anything else is extra.