Quotes About Awareness

Everyone knows, on some deep level, the conversations in which they don't belong. Chloe

There are only just so many times you can look at something before you no longer see it.

knew I was being too talky. I could hear it. I felt around for the off switch but never found it. Not that I think he cared. I was being too talky for me.

I see the sun, high overhead, and then I know. This darkness doesn't belong to the night. It belongs to me.

There's more to bagging groceries than you think. It's not as easy as it looks. There's a lot to know.

The core idea is that a thing is not a thing until it has an observer. And the observer seems to play a role in what kind of thing it will snap into being. But beyond that—no need to be so esoteric.

But mostly I just kept reminding myself to burn every moment into my memory. I just tried to be sure I was always there. That I didn't miss anything.

All men should strive to learn before they die What they are running from, and to, and why. —Thurber

He listened to the occasional creak of Flora's squeaky board, and noticed it sounded lonely. Or maybe that was just him.

Nothing's a onetime thing," Fern said. "Not in relationships. Everything is the tip of the iceberg. Everything points to something much bigger floating down where you can't see. If you see something rear its head once, expect to see it again. It's like if you see a cockroach in your kitchen. And you don't call the exterminator 'cause you figure it's just that one, and how long can it live? Yeah, good luck with that.

What can you do with a world where people do not even see?

Now, either nobody knows or nobody cares. Or maybe they just don't pay attention. They are too busy looking at their cellular phones.

We couldn't do as much harm if people could feel what they were doing.

Sometimes people are scared of a thing that won't hurt them. But they're not scared for no reason. They're just not scared for the reason they think they are.

was grateful, because the world looked beautiful in that big storm, and because I knew that somewhere in the world there was somebody who didn't have a can of hot soup, and I did.

Looking back, she couldn't believe she'd been so naive, so blind. She

At various ages children become aware of different realities of the gospel.

Can children grasp the full meaning of Christ's coming, death, and resurrection? Can we as adults? No, but awareness of the mystery draws us to explore, wonder, and discover more and more, year after year.

Who are you?" "I am Death," said the creature. "I thought that was obvious." "But you're so small!" "Only because you are small. You are young and far from your Death, September, so I seem as anything would seem if you saw it from a long way off-very small, very harmless. But I am always closer than I appear. As you grow, I shall grow with you, until at the end, I shall loom huge and dark over your bed, and you will shut your eyes so as not to see me.

If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.

Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.

Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.

It is not so easy to always remember who you are.

Every person draws a map that shows themselves at the center. But that does not mean that no other countries exist.