Quotes About Awareness

The average North American has probably lavished one hundred times more attention on O. J. Simpson and Monica Lewinsky than he has on the new microtechnologies that are poised to antiquate his job and subvert the political system he depends on for unemployment compensation.

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

When someone is close by, you just know it.

A veces el conocimiento da asco

My name is Kaine,' it said. 'And I see all.

If I can tell you anything today, it is that you should never, ever believe your eyes. Or your mind, for that matter.

Quiero decir, debería ser imposible, algunas veces no miras con la suficiente atención las cosas que no crees que pasaran o pueden pasar.

No sabrás nunca adónde vas hasta que no entiendas de dónde vienes.

Maybe when their minds go, they're not themselves anymore. Maybe the Newt we know is gone and he's not aware of what's happening to him. So really, he's not suffering." Minho almost looked offended by the notion. "Nice try, slinthead, but I don't believe it. I think he'll always be there just enough to be screaming on the inside, deranged and suffering every shuck second of it. Tormented like a dude buried alive.

Frypan has no reason to process or think too deeply about the returning memories. They're not like new revelations, things to which he should respond somehow. They've always been there, inside him. He has already reactedto them. He has been shaped by them. He's not learning. He's not experiencing. He's remembering.

Era como si la realidad de vivir [...] por fin hubiese calado en su mente.

though somehow Thomas could still sense her presence. He felt her. It was almost like how, even though he couldn't see Minho, he knew his friend lay only a few feet above him. And it wasn't just the snoring.

Well, this is hard because I don't know what you know.

A veces uno no presta mucha atención a aquello que no cree que pueda suceder

felt something

You're very observant, Jimmy," he said, and I thought it was pretty dumb to call it observant—it seemed obvious.

Be mindful even if your mind is full.

Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

I opened my eyes and saw the dark in all its original color.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

We as a civilization are all too much like someone addicted to a drug that will kill if continued and kill if suddenly withdrawn.

We are like passengers on a large aircraft crossing the Atlantic Ocean who suddenly realize just how much carbon dioxide their plane is adding to the already overburdened air. It would hardly help if they asked the captain to turn off the engines and let the plane travel like a glider by wind power alone. We cannot turn off our energy-intensive, fossil-fuel-powered civilization without crashing; we need the soft landing of a powered descent.

A picture will leave me unmoved if I don't take time with it, but if I stop, and let myself get a little lost, there's no telling what might happen