Quotes About Awareness

Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life.

to survive something we first need to know what it is we are surviving

Nomi, he said, you just need to wake up to the fact that other people need to know where you're going. But there's nobody behind me, I told him. And he said, reassuringly, that someday there may be.

I understand that if you say a certain word over and over and it begins to make you feel bad then you should goddamn stop saying that word.

She says isn't it funny how every second, every minute, every day, month, year, is accounted for, capable of being named—when time, or life, is so unwieldy, so intangible and slippery?

I went back to my medical information. I learned that my body would think it was pregnant [on the pill]. There would now be yet another part of myself that would not know what was really going on.

I feel safe in the car, alone and protected. I can see people milling about in the parking lot but they can't see me. Well, they can but they think I'm insane so they look away which is the same as being invisible.

Everytime I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really. - Nomi

When we know something we stop thinking about it, don't we?

Les dones del paller m'havien ensenyat que la consciència era resistència, que la fe era l'acció, que el temps s'esgota.

We are aware of many things, instinctively, says Ona quietly, but to have them articulated in a certain narrative way is pleasing and fun.

Let's not waste time by dwelling on the unknown. But that's what thinking is

But that's what thinking is, says Ona. And thinking is one of the things we want to be free to do. The things we know to exist or to be true don't require us to dwell on them.

He would be admitting to himself that life has suddenly become very short, very precious, that soon he'll no longer exist, that it'll be over. Of course he knew that, we know that, we say it, but to really, really know it, to be certain of it, is more than he can be right now. His bed is safe. Sleep is easy. He's not a stupid man.

I thought to myself that there really were so many simple ways we could make ourselves look less like idiots.

after hearing my mom's survival dream I think maybe this is my survival dream and it's not a nightmare. It's the beginning of my own cure. Because to survive something we first need to know what it is we're surviving.

Znamo mi vrlo dobro kako izgleda pod tu?im repom, ali bez toga njuškanja ne možemo živjeti.

Filip se gubio u detaljima te nikako nije mogao da tim detaljima oko sebe udahne neki dublji smisao.

To live in sync with who we truly are means to recognize that we are dependent on God for our very breath and are graced with many good things; it means to be grateful to the giver and attentive to the purpose for which the gifts are given.

The principle cannot be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict.

Matrix passò il Rubicone in uno stato di trance psicologica, incapace di percepire le acque che gli mulinavano intorno. Era un ragazzino e stava scivolando in maniera lenta e inesorabile nella delinquenza. In qualche recesso della sua mente era consapevole che forse qualcosa non andava, ma nel cyberspazio le linee di demarcazione sono molto confuse, sempre che siano visibili.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.