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Quotes About Awareness

A woman alone who needs assistance is actually far better off choosing someone and asking for help, as opposed to waiting for an unsolicited approach. The person you choose is nowhere near as likely to bring you hazard as is the person who chooses you.
~ Gavin de Becker
If we are looking for some specific, expected danger, we are less likely to see the unexpected danger.
~ Gavin de Becker
Denial is a save-now-pay-later scheme, a contract written entirely in small print, for in the long run, the denying person knows the truth on some level, and it causes a constant low-grade anxiety.
~ Gavin de Becker
In (sad) fact, if a full jumbo jet crashed into a mountain killing everyone on board, and if that happened every month, month in and month out, the number of people killed still wouldn't equal the number of women murdered by their husbands and boyfriends each year.
~ Gavin de Becker
because my childhood became all about prediction, I learned to live in the future. I didn't feel things in the present because I wanted to be a moving target, gone to the future before any blow could really be felt.
~ Gavin de Becker
Just as some things must be seen to be believed, some must be believed to be seen.
~ Gavin de Becker
a good exercise when worrying is to ask yourself, What am I choosing not to see right now? Worry may well be distracting you from something important. For
~ Gavin de Becker
Albert Einstein said that when you follow intuition, "The solutions come to you, and you don't know how or why.
~ Gavin de Becker
The woman whose shoulders tense slightly, who looks intimidated and shyly says, "No, thanks, I think I've got it," may be his victim. Conversely, the woman who turns toward him, raises her hands to the STOP position, and says directly, "I don't want your help," is less likely to be his victim. A
~ Gavin de Becker
Ordinary citizens can encounter violence at their jobs to the point that homicide is now the leading cause of death for women in the workplace.
~ Gavin de Becker
You know I used to listen to music a lot more.
~ Brett Favre
this is a good rule of thumb: if you can't hear the congregation, you are probably too loud
~ Brian A. Wren
I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.
~ Brian Andreas
Life Plan: I asked her what she planned to do with her life & she said she was way beyond that point already. I'm just happy I remember to be there when it happens, she said.
~ Brian Andreas
frustrated because it's going too fast to see but if you could see it, it wouldn't make any sense because you'd be looking too close
~ Brian Andreas
What is your intuition telling you? I said & she shook her head. My intuition is telling me to go back home & take a nap, she said. —Sixth Sense
~ Brian Andreas
It is not what you first think. There is no effort of will, no firm resolve in the face of this thing called living. There is only paying attention to the quiet each morning, while you hold your cup in the cool air & then that moment you choose to spread your love like a cloth upon the table & invite the whole day in again.
~ Brian Andreas
These are bowls filled with some kind of black goop. My friend says it's the blood from the slaughterhouse but why would they leave it where innocent people could step in it? is what I said & he said that's the way meateaters think.
~ Brian Andreas
I always thought there'd be enough time for everything & just today I figured out that's true as long as I don't expect to be alive for it. —Time for Everything
~ Brian Andreas
Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.
~ Brian Andreas
Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
~ Brian Andreas
Keep your right up or there'll be nothing left of you." - 100 Bullets I love this quote because it has double meaning.
~ Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso
Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice.
~ Brian Browne Walker
Start today like you're dying, because of course you are.
~ Brian Browne Walker