Quotes About Awareness

But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans.

scopaesthesia. The idea was you could sense when you were being watched. It was a cousin of scopophobia: the fear of being watched.

normalcy bias. We suppose the world will continue to spin the way it always has. We tell ourselves that what we are seeing isn't, in fact, the cataclysm that it is.

She was a woman and she had spent enough time alone on subway platforms or streets late at night to know something was wrong.

Stupid choices people made that they probably wouldn't if they'd thought about it for a split second longer.

Half of the fear of life is not knowing something that you wished you knew, and the other half is knowing it.

Lord, thank You," Elizabeth whispered. "Thank You for Your mercy and Your goodness. Thank You for answering. And help me focus on the things I can see You doing instead of the things I can't see.

sometimes you need permission to remember. There are things locked up inside all of us that we don't think are affecting us but have bearing on our lives every day." "You

You had to see what you had instead of what you didn't have. Start from where you are, not from where you want to be.

I used to think that I knew something about poverty. You have not seen poverty until you've seen it in Africa.

Knowledge not shared remains unknown

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. —JAMES BALDWIN

The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.' - Seka Milanovik

the disparity now gripping the United States is an inevitable consequence of white Americans' steadfast failure to confront where they came from, who they are, and the lies and myths they use to mask past and present crimes. History "is not the past," the film quotes Baldwin as saying. "History is the present. We carry our history with us. To think otherwise is criminal.

A public that can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction is left to interpret reality through illusion.

shutdown your electronic hallucinations. Turn off Facebook, don't put anything in your ears, throw out your TV. I don't Tweet. You have to read!

Journalism is about giving a voice to those who without us won't have a voice

When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.

If I put the top down, I start to burn in about five minutes.

Fatherhood has changed me - it has to change you. It makes you much more aware of the minutiae of life, it's not about your needs any more, its about everyone else's.

Part of high cholesterol is that you can look at yourself in the mirror, and you can feel great and think there's no issues. But silently, they can be affecting your heart.

It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.

Art is supposed to hold up a mirror to its audience and ask, 'What do you believe? What do you think? What do you feel?' and if you look at a painting and it makes you feel nothing, that's a feeling as well.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.