Quotes About Awareness

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within you. The worst part is you can't even tell who is who.

when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

The fly that no one to advise it follows the corpse into the grave.

Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly forever. Conventional tragedy is too easy. The hero dies and we feel a purging of the emotions. A real tragedy takes place in a corner, in an untidy spot, to quote W. H. Auden. The rest of the world is unaware of it.

And immediately Okonkwo's eyes were opened and he saw the whole matter clearly. Living fire begets cold, impotent ash. He sighed again, deeply.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

With Chinelo, I learned that parents must not assume that all they had to do for books was to find the smartest department store and pick up the most attractive-looking book in stock. Our complacency was well and truly rebuked by the poison we now saw wrapped and taken home to our little girl. I learned that if I wanted a safe book for my child I should at least read it through and at best write it myself.

We have a saying that a toad does not run in the day unless something is after it.

Travelers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves.

A man might pick his way with the utmost care through a crowded market but find that the hem of his cloth had upset and broken another's wares; in such a case the man, not his cloth, was held to repair the damage.

But knowing or not knowing does not save us from being known

When you bow your head to pray—when you're in a jam and you need to ask God for something—are you aware of who you're talking to?

Each day has a color, a smell.

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

SAY EXACTLY what you think until you find that no one is listening then say something else

This is one of the negative implications of free. People often don't care as much about things they don't pay for, and as a result they don't think as much about how they consume them. free can encourage gluttony, hoarding, thoughtless consumption, waste, guilt, and greed. We take stuff because it's there, not necessarily because we want it. Charging a price, even a very low price, can encourage much more responsible behavior.

In "open-source" software, where anyone can contribute to a project, the mantra is "With enough eyes, all bugs are trivial." Likewise for astronomy: With enough eyes, we'll see the asteroid with our name on it—and early enough to do something about it.

Children are resilient," Anise said, simultaneously agreeing with her friend and cutting her off. "But often their wounds simply remain invisible until, all at once, whatever is festering there becomes agonizingly apparent.

It has helped me to understand more about who I am- the geography of my own soul.

Now, the separation between depression and suicide is more crevasse than chasm.

Signs, after all, were everywhere; it was just a question of knowing how to read them.

She knew the truth of men and women and booze: it rarely ended well for either gender, but it was the women who wound up raped.