Quotes About Awareness

YOU CAN MISS A LOT IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE {RULE 52}.

RULE 9: THERE IS ALWAYS A CHANCE THAT SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE IS WATCHING YOU.

RULE 3: PEOPLE SO OFTEN DON'T SEE WHAT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES.

I like to know exactly what's being put into my food.

I pay attention. Nothing more than that." "You make it sound like it's no big deal to pay attention when the sad fact is, most people don't. It takes a lot of energy to listen.

I was an asshole. Stupid. I got caught off guard

It's not all about mountaintops. Mostly it's about training so that you'll know the mountaintop for what it is when you get there.

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

It must be the nowness of this disease that, in stealing the past and obscuring the future, forces us, the healthy and the ill, to stay in the moment.

Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems.

I'd heard a saying about meth, that it took you down one of three roads: jail, the psych ward, or death.

So I'd stabbed needles into my eyes and pretended not to see certain things. Bad things. Only by turning my back on certain thing, I ended up turning my back on my dearest friend, a betrayal I never intended. Or so I told myself. That was the problem with lying to yourself. Sometimes you got too good.

Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems. When actually, what we need to forget is ourselves. Change is healthy, right?

He leans forward seriously. "Bliss. At work and at play, let safety lead the way." Of course," I say. "Silly me." Danger never takes a vacation." That's right. Expect the unexpected." And never, never -" Yes?" He wags his finger. "Check a gas tank with a lighted flare." A laugh snorts out. "Good to know.

But if I didn't know Kate, then maybe I didn't know myself-and if was that not-knowing that made my gut clench. Like losing your balance, that whoosh of almost falling, before pulling yourself back in line.

Kids are doing meth in every town in the country, Cat. Dang. Get your head out of your butt.

We go to the same school. The same small school. Surely it would be hard to ignore someone in a school that small.

Sabe, às vezes, quando esquecemos de fazer as coisas para os outros, (...) é porque estamos envolvidos demais com os nossos problemas. (...) Quando, na verdade, precisamos esquecer de nós mesmos.

That's Chinese, not Japanese

I almost fell into the trap of thinking too much about the moment instead of living the moment, which would have been disastrous, because once I start thinking like that, it's hard to stop.

I didn't say it was dumb. It's what you feel,and guess what?Feelings are like 3yr. olds.They're not rational. They're just there.

Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

I'm aware of the incredible elasticity of life, how the buckled can become straight, the broken mended. Watch what is on the ground; watch what you step on, for it could contain hidden powers and, in a rage, fly up all emerald and scarlet to sting your face.