Quotes About Awareness

one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.

It was as if a deep fog had settled on me and everything around me, and I groped my way from one chore to the next without really seeing anything clearly.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

Ik adem, en ik beweeg, dus ik leef. Is dat duidelijk? Welke beproevingen ook komen, ik leef.' Hij zoog de borst vol adem en stapte in bed. 'Het is gezien,' mompelde hij, 'het is niet onopgemerkt gebleven.' Hij strekte zich uit en viel in een diepe slaap.

Uren, dagen, maanden, jaren, zei hij bij zichzelf. Dit is de avond. Dit is de nacht. Het is oudejaarsavond. Over ruim acht en twintig minuten is het middernacht. Ik heb nog acht en twintig minuten. Ik moet mijn gedachten verzamelen. Ik moet klaar zijn met denken, als het twaalf uur is.

Er gebeuren dingen om ons heen. Maar we merken ze nauwelijks. We zijn doof en blind.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear.

The quest for certainty is the biggest obstacle to becoming risk savvy. While there are things we can know, we must also be able to recognize when we cannot know something.

To be without history is to be trapped in a present where oppressive social relations appear natural and inevitable

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

To understand everything makes one tolerant.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

Let your head be more than a funnel to your stomach

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

No answer is also an answer.

You know nothing John Snow" -- the wildling Ygritte

Why is it that liquor flows more freely at this time of year than any other? Why is it that there are more automobile accidents during the "holiday season" than at any other time?

The first line says, "Be at all times without deluded thoughts arising." Deluded thoughts are the same thing as dichotomous thoughts, dualistic thoughts.

Crawling into the skin of the other (empathy). 'It must be hard to …' 176

Feelings have their own special names. The more names you know, the more you can understand your feelings and tell other people about them. And the more you can stick up for yourself. Names are like handles for our feelings. Knowing

You hear me speak. But do you hear me feel?

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.