Quotes About Awareness

She hated the predictability of herself, but knew life probably wouldn't be long enough for her to grow out of it.

You give thanks for small things. I gave thanks that I was wearing jeans, not a skirt. People start trying to kill you, you stop wearing skirts.

The moon sets. The next day you wake up in sheets that smell of fabric conditioner. There is CNN. There is coffee. There is weather. There is your human face in the mirror. The world, you discover, is a place of appalling continuity.

Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you'd understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.

The world, Lula was thinking, is oozing, teeming, crawling with miracles. And we live in the opaque plastic bubble of television and booze.

Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

Plus I think it would be good for men to know they have limits.

In the United Kingdom, the Osteoporosis Society reports that more women die from hip fractures due to osteoporosis than from cancers of the cervix, uterus, and breast combined.

I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.

Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it.

Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn`t all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos off the top shelf.

I told you, God is not coy. He's more likely to hit you across the forehead with a two-by-four than whisper in your ear

You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your carefree life, until one day you're finally cornered by a truth that can no longer be ignored.

God takes attendance every day.

Whatever the reason, too many are no longer willing to call evil by its name. There is no vision. And when there is no vision, the people perish.

Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because they are aware of it more than others are, and the awareness or unawareness of it is what makes each one of them into masters or holds them down to mediocrity.

En alguna ocasión alguien dijo que la ignorancia no consistía en no saber nada, sino en saber demasiadas cosas que no son verdad.

A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

The persons to be inspected should always feel themselves as if under inspection, at least as standing a great chance of being so." They would thus act as if they were always being watched, even if they weren't.

Se prego in cuor mio che la consapevolezza e il dibattito pubblico porteranno a una riforma, so anche che le politiche degli uomini mutano nel tempo, e persino la Costituzione viene sovvertita quando la fame di potere lo richiede. Traendo insegnamento dalla storia, dunque, non si parli più di fiducia nell'uomo, ma si vincoli quest'ultimo, contro il mal fare, con le catene della crittografia.

These are people who have become convinced that they themselves are not going to be personally targeted—because they are unthreatening and compliant—and therefore either deny that it's happening, do not care, or are willing to support it outright.

You don't have to believe in coincidences because they happen every day. The trick is to be able to discern when something is more than coincidence.