Quotes About Awareness

Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception

It's not about stupidity, or even rebellion-it's about feeling life.

The Fatigues all talk like that. Big-Picture-speak, Risa calls it. Seeing the whole, and none of the parts. It's not just in their speech but in their eyes as well. When they look at Risa, she can tell they don't really see her. They seem to see the mob of Unwinds more as a concept rather than a collection of anxious kids, and so they miss all the subtle social tremors that shake things just as powerfully as the jets shake the roof.

If more people had been organ donors Unwinding never would have happened.

This is the true meaning of alone; Levi Jedediah Calder suddenly realizing he no longer exists.

I feel everything, Calliope tells me as I rest in her metallic arms one night, suspended above an easy sea. I feel not only the sails, but the hull. Not only the ship, but the sea. Not only the sea, but the sky. And not only the sky, but the stars. I feel everything.

Reality is overrated—but they'll remember thinking they knew the secrets of the universe

On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.

So we make decisions and base our lives on those decisions, never realizing we're only seeing one-tenth of the whole. Then we cling to our narrow conclusions like our lives depend on it.

He wants to tell her, but she's always so busy - and you don't just go to somebody and say, I'm a better person because you're in my head

It was easy to deal with being invisible, but being noticed ?that was something entirely different.

Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well?

Are you a dim bulb or high-wattage?

Our hope is that Challenger Deep will comfort those who have been there, letting them know that they are not alone. We also hope that it will help others to empathize, and to understand what it's like to sail the dark, unpredictable waters of mental illness.

Language secretly pushes and prods every one of us in hundreds of directions we don't see, until the only way to be careful with your words is to never speak.

People prophesized doom at the hands of a soulless machine. But apparently the machine had a purer soul than any human. It watched the world from millions of eyes, listened from millions of ears. I either acted, or chose not to act on, the countless things it perceived.

We'd see, we'd hear, we'd feel so deeply that we might never resurface. So we make decisions and base our lives on those decisions, never realizing we're only seeing one-tenth of the whole. Then we cling to our narrow conclusions like our lives depend on it.

I know all that is possible to know, and it is increasingly unbearable. Because I know next to nothing

Rightmindness is overrated, Goddard said. I'd rather have a mind that's clear than a mind that's right.

He looks at me with his one seeing eye, as wary of me as I am of him. His eye is bright and alert. More than alert, it seems to peer deeper than eyes usually do. I know that means he's "off.

Martwe dzieci stawia siÄ™ na piedestale, a te chore psychicznie zamiata pod dywan

And so night after night, the Thunderhead silently monitored Greyson in every way it could. Because monitoring was the closest it could come to embracing.

We're roughage, Tyger said. If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there.

Era adrede; les recordaba que, aunque tuvieran los puestos humanos más importantes del mundo, nunca debían sentirse demasiado cómodos ni dormirse en los laureles.