Quotes About Awareness

It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.

Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?

This story is blowing up because of the racism of the white American community. Look to your own families, people, and don't throw stones.

You don't have to have been near death to know . . . what living is all about–but maybe it helps.

All this seeing. All this relentless taking in.

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

Murmuring gentlyOver fraises du bois,"I'm so ashamed of being white."

Ordinary Negroes hadn't heard of the Negro Renaissance. And if they had, it hadn't raised their wages any.

Justice That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.

Jace likes to pretend that everyone isn't talking about him, even when he knows they are.

Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.

Your boyfriend's dead. Thought you should know.

Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

To make a true choice, we must have true knowledge.

You cannot save people who do not want to be saved," said Magnus. "You can only stand by their side and hope that when they wake and realize they need saving, you will be there to help them.

And then we met you, and it was like he woke up. You couldn't see it, because you'd never known him any different. But I saw it. Hodge saw it. Alec saw it -why do you think he hated you so much? It was like that form the second we met you. You thought it was amazing that you could see us, and it was, but what was amazing to me was that Jace could see you too.

I know there are monsters on this earth,' said Tessa. 'You cannot tell me otherwise. I have seen them.

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first time - the hard T, the caress of the double S, the way it seemed to end on a breath.

It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.

Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead.