Quotes About Awareness

Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?

You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed

Because if you keep living like this you'll die.

There's great stuff in there. There's a disease called Ondine's Curse, in which your body loses the ability to breathe involuntarily. Can you imagine? You have to think "breathe, breathe" all the time, or you stop breathing. Most people who get it die.

The party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle

And you shouldn't assume that everything is always about you.

This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying. The party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle, but I think they do it to make us feel important. One thing's for sure: no one else in life says to me, "Wait, Craig, what were you going to say?

It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true- big things are often just small things that are noticed.

What happened when you woke up?" "I was having a dream. I don't know what it was, but when I woke up, I had this awful realization that I was awake. It hit me like a brick in the groin.

I was having a dream. I don't know what it was, but when I woke up, I had this awful realization that I was awake. It hit me like a brick in the groin.

Do you even know who the enemy is? I think…it's me.

Imagine your body becoming that of a stranger. Imagine the sensation of it being not yours, as you discover what it feels like to do this, or to have this happen to you, for the very first time. Imagine it happening with sickening slowness, or with shocking speed, that discovery. And then imagine knowing it has come too late.

Discoveries can come in many different ways, and the most important thing is to be ready for them.

People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.

As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.

Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.

If the world is something you accept rather than interpret, then you're susceptible to the influence of charismatic idiots.

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of shit.

El problema de no advertir la cultura propia es uno de los grandes placeres de viajar al extranjero: descubrir lo que uno no ha visto en el propio país y advertir lo que los demás no conocen acerca de ellos mismos.

Dare we admit that our thoughts and behaviors spring from a belief that the world revolves around us?