Quotes About Awareness

Once you know what true for you, it'll all get clearer.

Emotions are part of our soul's anatomy. Having them available is a gift; clinging to them is not.

Please teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

Just because it's natural doesn't mean you can be as stupid as you want with it.

the more you try to get reality to fit within your comfort zone, the more unprepared you are to deal with a world full of surprise, complexity, and change. Likewise, if we persist in trying to get our relationships to conform to our expectations instead of letting them be how they actually are, we may miss important opportunities to know ourselves and others more deeply.

Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.

boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.

There is none so blind as those who will not see.

Well there you have it, just like drinking and driving, if you get behind a wheel with a phone in your hand and you cause a death, then chances are you will face very serious charges.

If there's one thing you respect, it's coincidences. They never are and never will be just coincidences. They're shining neon signs, and you gotta read the signs.

Grace isn't just for other people. Maybe you didn't get that memo.

I've heard girls like it when you listen

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

He could not know that thoughts are not things you can give or not give. Thoughts are thrust upon you. You can only hope that thoughts that you don't want will tire of you at some point and flutter away.

we play the cards we've been dealt—as Isabel in Secrets of a Charmed Life says—based on finite knowledge, and while being largely unaware that everyone around us is playing their own cards.

the world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper," a quote by W. B. Yeats

Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.

I want to learn how to look deep to see what people are really like. I want to be the kind of person who plunges past the surface and seeks to know the inner thoughts of the people I am around.

what we see is not always what is. And what is, we often cannot see until we train our eyes to see it.

Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry." He sighed at this remembrance. "Hurried people miss many things. They see only what is right on top. . . ." His voice fell away.

Hurried people miss many things. They see only what is right on top. . .

He was worried I might one day naively mix laundry bleach with ammonia and he wanted to make sure I understood some things cannot be stirred together into the same pot because they will react in ways that can hurt someone. It is that way with fear and ignorance, I think.

He had made his decision. Later in life Ann would learn that when certain men made decisions no matter how much it might torture them afterwards they would stick with their decision. Men, she learned, would rather suffer than change their minds or their habits. They could develop elaborate systems for containing pain, sometimes so successful they would remain completely unaware of the vastness of the pain they possessed.

Unless you were high up in a building or happened to glimpse it at the end of one of the big avenues going east-west, all you knew of the sunset was a darkening in the air. No wonder people in New York were so unbalanced. They were totally untouched by the rhythms of nature. You were only aware of nature when something extreme happened, like a snowstorm or heatwave.