Quotes About Awareness

think that the tragedy of human existence is our world is run by people who are really good at kidding themselves, like your father. Your dad manages to kid himself that he's rich and powerful because he's the cream and has risen to the top. But he's not stupid. He knows he's kidding himself. So underneath that top layer of bullshit is another, more aware belief system: the belief that everyone else would kid themselves the same way he does, if they had the chance.

The time to act is when you still have privilege and power, not when you've had it stripped from you.

the point of fake news isn't just to make it so that no one can tell what's true, it's to make it so that no one cares anymore, so that when you try to get all your friends to go out and march about something that they should already be thinking about, they're all like, 'Eh, is that even real?' Your enemies don't need people to disagree with you, they just need people not to care.

The point is just that people usually only figure out that things are turning bad when they turn bad for them, and by then it's too late. The time to act is when you still have privilege and power, not when you've had it stripped from you.

by the time the datapocalypse is obvious even to people whose paychecks depended on denying it, it would be too

Someday, people are going to realize that. Someday, enough white folks, enough rich white folks are going to realize that living in a lawless city where hooligans like you can administer beatings and then get your victims locked up for the crime of complaining about it is no good for them. "But long before then, everyone else is going to wake up to that fact. Brown people. White people. Chinese people and Puerto Ricans and everyone

The you that is you is actually the space of things that you might think in response to some stimulus.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Remember, it isn't the snake bite that does the serious damage; it's chasing the snake that drives the poison to the heart.

This went on for five minutes. At no time did he disappear. "Can you still see me?" "Afraid so." "Damn!" His eyes snapped open. "Nothing? Didn't my skin turn opaque?

maybe fear is God's way of saying, Pay attention, this could be fun.

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.

Stay calm, have courage, and watch for signs.

I think there was an awful lot about him that I thought I knew, but the truth was I was just coloring in the missing parts with colors I liked.

You cannot fight time itself, slay the minutes and hours with your blade, wipe the bleeding seconds on your shirt. Time cannot be fought.

Wodensfang, you're paranoid, said Hiccup, yawning. It's only paranoia, whispered the Wodensfang, if things aren't out to get you...

Growing up happens so quick sometimes, that it catches us by surprise.

It's only paranoia, whispered the Wodensfang, If things aren't out to get you...

You cannot fight Time itself, slay the minutes and the hours with your blade, nor wipe the bleeding seconds on your shirt. Time cannot be fought.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am… Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines… you are forced into direct experience [which] inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience.

The characters were not unknown because they were illegal or didn't have the documents but because people didn't want to know them.

Suddenly he realized what was happening.

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.