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Quotes About Awareness

He's only a dog. Yes but he has found me out.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Uncertainty to me was like Aardvaark to other people. A curious thing I had no notion of, but recongnised through secondhand illustrations.
~ Jeanette Winterson
He's only a dog. Yes but he has found me out.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Biz hissedecek ÅŸekilde tasarlar?mlan?p inÅŸa edildik, dolay?s?yla hiçbir zihinsel halimiz, hiçbir düÅŸüncemiz yoktur ki ayn? zamanda bir duygu durumu olmas?n. Hiçbirimiz a??r?, kald?rabileceÄŸimizden fazla hissetmeyiz, ancak baz?lar?m?z mümkün olduÄŸunca az hissedebilmek için elinden geleni yapar.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Sempre pensamos que aquilo de que precisamos para transformar tudo — o milagre — está em outro lugar, mas muitas vezes está ali, bem ao nosso lado. Algumas vezes, o milagre somos nós mesmos.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Congratulations on your Engagement'. But I am not engaged I am deeply distracted.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Some folk say I'm a fool, but there's more to this world than meets the eye.' I waited quietly. 'There's this world,' she banged the wall graphically, 'and there's this world,' she thumped her chest. 'If you want to make sense of either, you have to take notice of both.
~ Jeanette Winterson
When was the last time you looked at anything, solely, and concentratedly, and for its own sake? Ordinary life passes in a near blur. If we go to the theatre or the cinema, the images before us change constantly, and there is the distraction of language. Our loved ones are so well known to us that there is no need to look at them, and one of the gentle jokes of married life is that we do not.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I do not know the art of being clear to those who do not want to be attentive.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To exist is to feel; our feeling is undoubtedly earlier than our intelligence, and we had feelings before we had ideas.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Das einzige Mittel, den Irrtum zu vermeiden, ist die Unwissenheit.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cuando me he fijado en algunas páginas de un autor que debe ser leído con atención, mi espíritu le abandona y se cierne en los espacios.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ben öÄŸrenmeyi baÅŸkalar?na öÄŸretmek için deÄŸil, kendimi bilmek için istedim.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Good bones of Bonesville, Sherlock Bones said. If you know what you fear, you'll fear it less.
~ Unknown
She flicked off the TV.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
Empathy is not enough, there must be advocacy. - Jeanne Jones in MIXED: Exploring What It Means To Be Blended In America
~ Unknown
I first noticed I was missing on a Thursday.
~ Jeanne Ray
I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related, if the fire that had burned me that day while I cooked hot dogs was somehow connected o the fire I had flushed down the toilet and the fire burning at the hotel. I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.
~ Jeannette Walls
I hadn't been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.
~ Jeannette Walls
I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes. • • •
~ Jeannette Walls
Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito, I'd tell people.
~ Jeannette Walls
As for the learning itself, I figured you didn't need a college degree to become on of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.
~ Jeannette Walls