Quotes About Awareness

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to.

Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time.

I ain't. Keeps him dumb. He wouldn't know a good woman from a snake and he won't let nobody point out the difference.

It's amazing how much time there is when you're unhappy.

He didn't mean it. It happened before he was through. She'd stepped away from him to pick flowers, returned, and at the sound of her footsteps behind him, he'd turned around before he was through. It was becoming a habit - this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had.

At some point in life the world's beautify becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.

Ruth looked for the water mark several times during the day. She knew it was there, would always be there, but she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was life and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside herself.

for in their secret awareness of Him, He was not the God of three faces they sang about. They knew quite well that He had four, and that the fourth explained Sula.

she would never know her beauty. She would see only what there was to see: the eyes of other people.

Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

When I teach creative writing, I always speak about how you have to learn how to read your work." —Toni Morrison

Oh, sure. You have to know what's wrong before you can find what's right.

If I had to answer the question, What is the most important ability for the actor? . . . the answer would emphatically be listening. Lest there be some misunderstanding, let me define what I mean by listening. I am talking about listening with all the senses.

When they wake up in the morning, they don't say, "Good morning, Lord." Rather, they say, "Good Lord, it's morning.

If I asked her in what ways you have adjusted your plans and schedule in the past month because you saw that she had a burden or a need you could help meet, would she be able to recall such times?

Satan often tries to prevent you from taking the spiritual realm seriously. If he can divert your attention away from the spiritual realm, he can keep you away from the only place where your victory is found. If he can distract you with people or things you can see, taste, touch, hear, or smell, he can keep you from living a life of victory.

The truth is that the greater your spiritual development, the greater your sensitivity to sin. The more you grow in Christ, the more you will be aware of your propensity to sin.

Exodus 3:1)

The only way to know God, the only way to know the other, is to listen. Listening is reaching out into that unknown other self, surmounting your walls and theirs; listening is the beginning of understanding, the first exercise of love. None of us listen enough, do we, dear? We only listen to a fraction of what people say. It's a wonderfully useful thing to do. You almost always hear something you didn't expect.

And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely

Lolling on the narrow pier, surrounded by these mocha-colored youths, I became aware of my own pallid body in an unaccustomed way. "Like cats," George Biddle, an American painter, wrote of islanders in the 1920s, "they fall naturally into harmonious poses.

Selfishness is uncomfortable even for the selfish. Hence the rise of gated communities: the privileged don't like to be reminded of their privileges - if these carry morally dubious connotations.

OvÅ¡em psát a vyjadÃ…â"¢ovat se s plným vÄ›domím o svém omezeném vlivu je u intelektuál?, alespo? podle prvního zdání, výjime?nÄ› bezú?elný podnik – a pÃ…â"¢itom je to to nejlepÅ¡í, v co m?žeme doufat.

Schopnost evokovat Hitlera, OsvÄ›tim nebo Mnichov má své pÃ…â"¢ednosti: alespo? se tak sou?asnost dovolává minulosti, místo aby ji zcela ignorovala. Dnes to ?iníme amatérsky a stále více zp?sobem, kterým sami sobÄ› Å¡kodíme, ale aspo? to dÄ›láme. Nemáme se tÄ›chto aktivit vzdát, nýbrž provádÄ›t je s vyÅ¡Å¡í mírou historické informovanosti a vnímavosti.