Quotes About Awareness

It is possible to know people. They show you who they are. You just have to be looking.

And when a girl likes talking about you more than talking to you, well, in my experience, that's the end.

It's like they can smell the public school on me.

Yeah, I don't have a Yale degree but my bullshit detector is excellent. Top drawer, even.

Being alive is nothing without being able to live.

When people show you who they are, it is your job to pay attention.

Until tonight , she thought death was for grandparents and goldfish.

Consciousness is the monster and it wins.

You didn't tie your shoelaces and you blamed the world when you tripped.

She thinks she's so smart but if you erase an hour, it doesn't mean shit, not unless you erase the weeks leading up to that hour.

She says you can't pretend you have nothing when you have so much.

That's why you leave the windows open. You don't know how to be alone with yourself. And if you block out the world, there you'd be.

Most people like cheap mysteries and most people have never heard of Paula Fox or Hannah

you're still talking and fuck, it's hard to listen when I can smell your body wash.

Do you ever notice how many words we waste?

When you hear nothing about the body, he suggests, you stop listening to it, and feeling it; you stop experiencing it as a worthy, integrated entity.

Noting that adolescence is the time in a girl's life when she realizes that men have all the power and that hers can come only from consenting to become a submissive, adored object, she wrote: "Girls stop being and stop seeing.

Of course, there is no simple answer. Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time; all you know is you'd die without it

Sobriety is less about "getting better" in a clear, linear sense than it is about subjecting yourself to change, to the inevitable ups and downs, fears and feelings, victories and failures, that accompany growth. You do get better—or at least you can— but that happens almost by default, by the simple fact of being present in your own life, of being aware and able, finally, to act on the connections you make.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

Your needs are overwhelming? You can't depend on yourself or others to meet them? You don't even know what they are? Then need nothing.

It is up to angels to show you signs and it is your job to decode the meaning. Above all, be humble and full of gratitude.

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