Quotes About Awareness

Look. It's one of the shortest sentences in the English language. But we don't really look, Chika. Not as adults. We look over. We glance. We move on.

There are touches in your life that identify the person making contact, even if your eyes are closed.

You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?

When you are measuring life, you are not living it...

time, because none of us know how much we have, and it is an affront to God to assume there will be more.

Kai laiko turi be galo, niekas neb?ra ypatinga. Be netek?i? ar aukos mes nesugebame ?vertinti to, k? turime.

Yang terjadi saat impianmu menjadi nyata adalah kesadaran yang perlahan luruh bahwa impianmu tidaklah seperti yang kau bayangkan. Dan impian itu tidak bisa menyelamatkanmu.

If I can't see them or hear them, how can I help them?

We often think things are about us when they are not.

Have you ever considered how many living things there are on earth?" Cleo asked. "People. Animals. Birds. Fish. Trees. It makes you wonder how anyone could feel lonely. Yet humans do. It's a shame." She looked to the sky, now a deep shade of purple. "We fear loneliness, Annie, but loneliness itself does not exist. It has no form. It is merely a shadow that falls over us. And just as shadows die when light changes, that sad feeling can depart once we see the truth.

But out here, adrift, you realize how often we take our placement on this Earth for granted.

Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.

Consider the word time. We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with time as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed.

Man rarely knows his own power, the old man said.

You counted the minutes, but did you use them wisely?

Counting life's moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down.

I believe in being fully present, Morrie said. That means you should be with the person you're with. When I'm talking to you now, Mitch, I try to keep focused only on what is going on between us. I am not thinking about something we said last week. I am not thinking of what's coming up this Friday. I am not thinking about doing another Koppel show, or about what medications I'm taking. I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it. I know.

You can find something truly important in a minute.

Es una pena perder el tiempo. Siempre creemos tener mucho.

You cannot talk when you first arrive. He smiled. It helps you listen.

But a clock ticks for all of us, silently, somewhere.

Para conocerte a ti mismo, que es lo mismo que comprender el mundo entero, no necesitas buscar más allá de las lindes de tu propia vida: el florido prado, los bosques inexplorados.

To comprehend yourself truly, which is also to comprehend the world truly, you needn't look any farther than at what abounds with life around you – the blossoming meadow, the untrodden woodlands. Without this as mankind's overriding objective, I don't foresee an age of actual enlightenment ever arriving.