Quotes About Awareness

Remembering pain is how you learn never to let the cause of it happen again

Because today after all, is all we knew.

Ngu xu?n là th? tôi chÆ°a bao gi? Ä'ánh giá th?p

I always had this little terror, this feeling that the whole world was asleep, that around this whole, huge planet, I was the only ne left awake in the world.

Excuse me, sir, you got dog poop on your shoe.

FYI, car crashes kill way more kids than cancer does. Those crosses you see on the side of the highway, the little white ones hung with fading silk flowers? They're for people my age. ("People who were texting," my dad liked to remind me—because he never wanted to blame Budweiser for anything.)

physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky, so they'll never know when one of their pals is flying.

Pain is a message. Messages can be ignored.

And why was the blind guy on watch, you might ask? Because a cockroach couldn't come within fifty feet of us without his knowing it. Iggy

Total paranoia is just total awareness.

We couldn't know the future or how long it would last. We could only choose to be happy and alive right now.

School are plastered with all sorts of NO BULLYING posters. There's only one problem: Bullies, it turns out, don't read too much. I guess reading really isn't a job requirement

One only realizes the value of air when one is deprived of it and one only begins to value life in the face of death.

Yeah. It's just too fricking easy to steal a child. Perv says, 'Want to see my puppy?' Kid toddles over. Perv drags the kid inside and takes off. No witness. No evidence. And now," I said, "the long wait for a phone call… that never comes.

Be kind, because everyone you meet could be fighting a hard battle you know nothing about.

Claire had a look on her face that I had learned to recognize. You wouldn't call it smugness or self-importance; Claire didn't run that way. It was more of a twinkle that read, I found something. Or more like, Sometimes I even amaze myself.

But I was definitely starting to see where his nickname came from.

I followed the adage that if you really want to learn about someone, you should just shut up and listen.

I may not know who I am, but I know who I'm not.

It had been right there in

Did you ever hear the story of the man who walks past the mental hospital?" he said. "He can hear all the patients inside shouting, 'Thirteen! Thirteen! Thirteen!,' but the fence is too high for him to see what is going on. Then he spots a knothole in one of the planks. He looks through it, and bam—a stick pokes him in the eye, and he hears the inmates all shouting, 'Fourteen! Fourteen! Fourteen!

guy's a junkie, but he's not stupid. I

Excerpt from Alert copyright © James Patterson, 2015

every passing moment looking at the corpse, I became aware