Quotes About Awareness

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn't know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

I know this because Tyler knows this.

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.

Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?

You know that old phrase 'Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it'? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should have been paying attention. Well get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel like someday.