Quotes About Awareness

Life was like that. You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

She knew from before: the moment se let her guard down, the world would spiral into a distant but familiar abyss.

A person who has been up close when a gun is fired into another human being never mistakes the sound of a gunshot for something else.

he knew that sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

Like my father, I have devoted my life to treating animals, but that was the first time I had ever made the connection between the horrible things people do to animals and the even more horrific things they do to other human beings. Here was how a chain ripped flesh. Here was the damage wrought by kicking feet and punching fists.

More women are murdered by their intimate partners than by any other group.

I see you, she told him. I see exactly who you are.

Maybe that's why Claire had perfected the art of invisibility. It was a form of self-preservation. You couldn't resent what you could not see. She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language she could not understand. There was nothing timorous about her, but you got the feeling that she always had one foot out the door. If the situation got too hard, or too intense, she would simply disappear.

out by opioids or willful denial. It was like her emotional maturation had stopped the second she'd swallowed that first Oxycontin.

Being dead is a bit like being stupid, isn't it? Easy for you, but hard for the people around you.

If you have to say you're not doing something, then you probably are.

Claire joined her, absently watching a lone squirrel hop across the decking and drink saline water from the pool. Asking what to do next was a loaded question, because what it all boiled down to was whether or not Claire wanted to know more. This was past red pill/blue pill. This was skinning the proverbial onion.

Ben Hecht said, "Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell time by watching the second hand of a clock.

You can't throw a brick without hitting a heroin addict these days." She sighed. "If only we had more bricks.

The biggest obstacle to learning something new is the belief that you already know it.

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

The author says that theologian operates with windows open to the interest of the world, but also with a skylight that allows full awareness of prayer.

L'homme ne prend conscience de son être que dans les situations limites. [Autobiographie philosophique (1963)]

Omul nu-ÅŸi descoper? adev?ratul sine decât în situaÅ£ii-limit?.

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

It is not social consciousness that determines social being, but social being that determines social consciousness.

Perseus wore a magic cap so that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over our own eyes and ears so as to deny that there are any monsters.