Quotes About Awareness

The canker of self-consciousness has been long in me, so like a lot of writers I not only do a thing, I see myself doing it too—it's almost like not being alone. That morning our hero skipped in his skivvies down to the shore of the sea . . . it was dark . . . the fog . . . Storytelling!

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

We stop looking for monsters under our beds when we realize they are inside us.

Well! this time next year, we will know all of which we are now ignorant.

Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

our inner selves can't help but come along

She'd said one night, I don't think about the past much. I try to take each day as it presents itself and let sleep put it away before the next sunrise.

The act of posting a letter would become too complex with significance: a walk down the stair-way, over the door-stop, on to the side-walk, across the pave-ment and over to the mail-box. Common objects would dissolve into their primal states, each having an independent life.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Viktor Frankl (1984) Author of Man's Search for Meaning

Regrettably, many Americans don't pay much attention to the inconsistencies in U.S. foreign policy. People in other parts of the world who feel the impact of those policies play close attention. And they take notes.

When I walk the fields I am oppressed now and then with an innate feeling that everything I see has a meaning, if I could but understand it.

The young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. He knows it indeed, and, if need were, he could preach a homily on the fragility of life; but he brings it not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December.

By sheer grace, God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world. " —LIFE TOGETHER

One is distressed by the failure of reasonable people to perceive either the depths of evil or the depths of the holy." —ETHICS

In solitude, struggles occur that no one else knows about. Inner battles are fought here that seldom become fodder for sermons or illustrations for books. God, who probes our deepest thoughts during protracted segments of solitude, opens our eyes to things that need attention. It is here He makes us aware of those things we try to hide from others.

Someone has said, Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance. I agree.

God's voice isn't all that difficult to hear. In fact, you almost have to be closing your eyes and stopping your ears to miss it.

but he understands she's twenty now (how did that happen?)

There is good management and bad management: good management is like air—you don't know it's there until it's gone away.

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

And if the common people ever realise that vampires exist, it will be a very short time indeed before naked noonday identity parades are required by law.

I notice that Andy is watching our exchange with the still, silent fascination of a fly on the wall that is canny enough to be aware of the existence of swatters.

Sociopath was one of the most useful concepts that Miriam's Memetic Engineering Task Force had imported from the United States: Erasmus's Propaganda Ministry had been working overtime to raise awareness of it as an Anti-Democratic Problem: People who think People are Things.