Quotes About Awareness

He was aware that the essence of proper intelligence was the embrace of contradiction.

In the end you should probably know your characters as well as you know yourself. Not only what they had for breakfast this morning, but what they wanted to have for breakfast.

He was aware that the essence of proper intelligence was the embrace of contradiction. And the recognition of complexity was to be balanced against the need for simplicity

One corner to another. One more crack in the pavement. That's the way we all walk: the more we have to occupy our minds the better.

Enquanto houver lugares onde seja possível a asfixia social; em outras palavras, e de um ponto de vista mais amplo ainda, enquanto sobre a terra houver ignorância e miséria, livros como este não serão inúteis.

Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time the toxic reaction sets in after all.

Be grateful for the moment in Time.

Hey," Faraday said after a few seconds. "Did you know your clock's still ten minutes fast?

When I walk the halls of my high school those smudges are a constant reminder that death is a mere squint away.

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17)

Happiness comes from accepting the present situation, whether it's something you wish to savor as long as possible or change as quickly as you can. Neither is possible without acceptance as the starting point, because without acceptance, you are living on the periphery of your life. There at the edges, you can't fully enjoy the god stuff or do anything about the rest

You know how we're thinking about food these days, less in terms of carbs and calories than in terms of color, vivacity, and life force? We can do the same with time. Then it's no longer about having enough of it but about infusing color and vivacity and life force into every moment. (279)

She couldn't know everything about him, of course, because even Sarah didn't know that he was in love with her. But Mrs. Decker knew enough.

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

The mark of man is tragedy and the world must know this.

The world is the world... It is you that makes the horror.

A wise man said a long ago, to realize that one is ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

being human is nothing other than being conscious and being responsible!

Sin embargo, yo afirmo que nosotros no inventamos el propósito de nuestra vida, nosotros lo descubrimos.

self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it. The