Quotes About Awareness

I see the way he looks at you when you're not aware of his gaze. I see the way you care for him. And so when you think he wants you gone, it is not that. He is simply afraid to lose you.

When you read, you develop wisdom—or, in Mortimer Adler's words, "become enlightened." "To be informed," Adler writes in How to Read a Book, "is to know simply that something is the case. To be enlightened is to know, in addition, what it is all about.

There is nothing like a grocery list to remind us how human we are.

as Thomas Paine said, it has never been discovered how to make a man unknow his knowledge.

Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert

To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to. You take them off their path, away from their plans, from their everyday routine. Sometimes it's also forcing them to die.

I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it, even I had trouble knowing it. So I told myself, over and over, You are in pain. It was the only way I could get through to myself. I was demonstrating externally and irrefutably an inward condition.

When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

You got to get out when it's no fun anymore. You'll know when it's over the day it's no fun anymore. You know what I'm saying?

I realized that he'd been trying to work up the interest to flirt with me.

She knows the poem.

Sometimes when I am not expecting it, when I let down my guard for a moment, allowing the thousands, the millions of little synapses in my head to work their will, conveying to me just what it is that I cannot bear to know, cannot bear to be known, I do remember.

There's something I know but I don't know it yet. It's driving me nuts.

The one thing she didn't teach me because I was always in a rush was to stick around. I was always getting laid on the run.

life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre

All you can do, every day, is to learn the truth as best you can.

Most new discoveries are suddenly seen things that were always there.

In that marvelous Indian epic poem, the Mahabharata, the sage Yudhisthira is asked: "Of all things in life, what is the most amazing?" Yudhisthira answers: "That a man, seeing others die all around him, never thinks that he will die.

S? v?ng m?t c?a cô bé hoá ra càng khi?n s? hi?n di?n c?a cô càng l?n h?n trong Ernest, nh? m?t cái h? mà ng??i ta ph?i ?i vòng ?? không b? ngã, song ng??i ta ngh? t?i cái h? ?ó nhi?u t?i m?c ng??i ta v?n b? ngã xu?ng ?ó

I see the wise woman. And she sees me.

I knew myself right down to the blood and the bone and the breath that were singing there loud and clear and wild in the wind.

Listen to Yourself. It isn't easy to sit still for yourself. Especially, Ruth points out, "when we're uncomfortable. And this is uncomfortable stuff, because there's something nagging, and you don't know what it is, and you don't know what to do about it, with a capital do.