Quotes About Awareness

cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.

Start looking for joy and you'll find it.

work is ultimately to be about a finer attunement to the world as the place of God's sustaining presence. With an awareness of God and with an appreciation for God's intention that creatures be whole and at peace, people's use of the world can be transformed so that the gifts of life are better cherished, nurtured, and shared.

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

How can you see something that isn't there? yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,he said. For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones. Then where is Reality? barked Tock. Right here,cried Alec, waving his arms.

Why don't they live in Illusions?' suggested the Humbug. 'It's much prettier.' 'Many of them do,' he answered, walking in the direction of the forest once again, 'but it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. Carry this with you on your journey, he said softly, for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star — and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

My goodness', thought Milo. 'Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.

I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be.

Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way...for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

Why, did you know that there are almost as many kinds of stillness as there are sounds? But, sadly enough, no one pays any attention to them these days.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

they never see what they're too much of a hurry to look for

Ali zar u buci nema i dobrih zvukova?

For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

It's more important to know whether there will be weather, than what the weather will be.

I)t's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

My goodness," thought Milo, "everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. "Carry this with you on your journey," he said softly, "for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star—and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

The dumbing down of America is proceeding apace.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens