Quotes About Awareness

You do not know your own beauty, you struggle in grief, but I, I have seen it all, and I know: You yourself are the secret essence.

And here's one reminder: avoid filling your life with nice people who find racism invisible or who second-guess your every instinct on it while indulging in liberal hand-wringing, because eventually, this will drain your inner resources. Seek out people who are woke - tel me if I just used a hip word correctly?

It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

and time is the stuff of which a self is made.

It leaves space for your thoughts to echo

Information is key at these things: no one wants to be caught holding social stock that's about to crash.

Saeed partly resisted the pull of his phone. He found the antenna too powerful, the magic it summoned too mesmerizing, as though he were eating a banquet of limitless food, stuffing himself, stuffing himself, until he felt dazed and sick, and so he had removed or hidden or restricted all but a few applications.

and each time she returned she told the maid to come with her, and the maid said no, for she had a sense of the fragility of things, and she felt she was a small plant in a small patch of soil held between the rocks of a dry and windy place

He was aware that alone a person is almost nothing.

phones themselves have the innate power of distancing one from one's physical surroundings, which accounted for part of it

it's possible to open our eyes, to see, to recognize our solitude—and at the same time to not be entirely alone.

You're a watchful guy. You know where that comes from? I shook my head. It comes from feeling out of place, he said. Believe me. I know

In America, the murky, unknown places of the world are blank screens:

You watch one after another of the ubiquitous, hyper-argumentative talk shows that fill your television, aware that in their fury they make politics a game, diverting public attention rather than focusing it. But that suits you perfectly. Diversion is, after all, what you seek.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.

One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope.

We come into the world whole, all of us,but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.

He still smelled of limes. It made saliva come into her mouth. It made her feel that before she had been sleepy, and now she was awake.

Sandor waited. Sometimes the most important work was done in the silences.

Because it shortens the odds against us," said Sandor. "It affords us the opportunity to take control. Because what we do not know controls us.

because I know the difference between preaching and anesthesia.