Quotes About Awareness

For nearly a decade, I thought it was obvious that I was poor.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Obviously there are a lot of charities out there but with cancer you have to be lucky to have not been affected by it or not know anybody who has had it.

I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

I do struggle to identify an occasion when I was held back because I'm a woman... You don't think about it at the time, but looking back at it, of course.

I wanted the new Green Arrow to somehow sense his long, brutal past. It's like someone who has past lives they can't remember but feels occasional flashes of.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

All there is to thinking, he said, is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so beautiful, the beautiful being something you know added to something you see, in a while that is different from the sum of its parts. What I saw might have been just another winter scene, although an impressive one. But what I knew was that the earth underneath was alive and that by tomorrow, certainly by the day after, it would be all green again.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

You've seen too many movies. If you're holding a gun and you shoot a defenseless man, then you're a poor creature, a dastardly person. That's a perfectly ridiculous idea, you realize. The fact that you're holding the gun and the other man is not is no accident. It's a product of everything you've achieved, it assumes that if you're . . . you're aware enough, you have the gun when you need it.

The moments like these, the passing doubts, were the temptations that caught you if you were not careful.

Consciousness, that blunt tool, bucks in the general direction of the truth. Instinct plucks the feather.

When the wings of insanity beat so near, one pays attention to a feather

I heard her calling to me from caverns so deep in herself she was never aware of her own voice.

None of us here have spent more than 90 percent of our adult life in the cages where the animals are.

The more you give yourself to the universe, the more passive you become, the closer you will be to the secrets of the universe.

He already understands that the past can't be changed. Now he's beginning to understand how easily it can be repeated.

It was safe to talk to yourself because of the roar you were subsumed in, besides being alone. I fragmented. One sense I had was that I was going to die sometime anyway. Another was that the falls were something you could never apply the term fake or stupid to. This has to be animism, was another feeling.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.