Quotes About Awareness

The true voyage of self-discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. —MARCEL PROUST

The truth is, I knew loss. I didn't know grief. Now, I do.

I finally learned that life is not made up of BIG moments and sudden epiphanies, but rather of tiny bits of time, some so small they pass by unnoticed.

Perhaps she was looking at the other side of fear. What happened to a child when fear had been the norm forever Ã¢â'¬Â¦ did it melt into watchfulness?

It was strange how you could stop seeing people who were right beside you, how images stuck in your head.

He'd never thought much about silence, but now he knew its every shape and contour. It was a cheap glass jar that trapped old voices and kept them fresh.

Don't take peace for granted, he'd said to her often. It can shatter like glass.

You shine a light on hard times. This is what your pictures do. You do not let people look away from that which hurts.

Words and ideas can be deadly. You be careful what you say and to whom, especially in this town.

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. —JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

You think you have all the time in the world until you know you don't.

Don't take peace for granted, he'd said to her often. It can shatter like glass.

posters in town, how

Women were integral to the Resistance. Why couldn't men see that?

night rather than to gobble it all up at once. And

Christ. Time is short, don't you understand that? We bump along, blindly assuming we have forever to do things, say things…but we don't. You can feel perfectly fine, and go to your annual checkup on a sunny Wednesday afternoon, and discover that your time's up. Game over.

Myl?dami sužinome, kokie norime b?ti, kariaudami suvokiame, kokie esame.

Never has the chasm between progress and poverty been so hauntingly large in this country as it is today. We are in the clutches of an economic depression so carnivorous and insatiable, it's eating the very fabric of our lives. We are sacrificing our children to it, our future. And no one, it seems, is listening.

What was the right thing for a mother to say to her nearly grown daughter about the ugliness in the world? How could she be honest?

They say people who don't heed history are doomed to repeat it.

Americans. They didn't listen.

Consciousness brought pain.

Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it.

Ah. Consequences," Madame said. "Perhaps now you will see that they should be considered.