Quotes About Awareness

We contain more than our understanding allows us, at a given moment, to understand.

Normal people don't know how lucky—how blessed—they are.

They got so accustomed to the false alarms that when she did eventually die, they did not realize it, and she lay there twenty minutes, serene in my embrace, smiling blankly at me.

Our eyes were on the Other-world, the stars, the gods. We didn't keep watch on the world around us. And when we eventually lowered our heads and studied the waters closer to home, it was too late.

You don't recognise the good times in life until it all goes bad and you look back and see how lucky you were, how easy you had things.

Everyone in the Hall knows what's really happening, but as long as it looks as if everything is in order, nobody will object.

In fiction classes... you find that epiphany has a pretty high rate of occurrence... But when you tell your own story honestly, that epiphany thing is rare... The only changes are emergencies or blessings: when you wake up, notice the surroundings, then fall back, and wander more. And if you're lucky you end up walking again through a life where you're never called on to do much noticing.

There is no generally effective technique for assimilating the shadow. It is more like diplomacy or statesmanship and it is always an individual matter. First one has to accept and take seriously the existence of the shadow. Second, one has to become aware of its qualities and intentions. This happens through conscientious attention to moods, fantasies and impulses. Third, a long process of negotiation is unavoidable.

What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

It's probably polite to pretend you don't see people coming out of pawnshops, anyhow.

You're old enough to know that everybody except very crazy people and very stupid people suspect themselves now and then – or whenever they happen to think about it – of not being exactly sane. ? Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch XIX

If, when you talk to people, they keep backing away from you, it's because you're TOO CLOSE, alright? SO DON'T KEEP ADVANCING ON THEM LIKE A HUMAN GLACIER.

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes.

Q. How is the turn signal used in Florida? A. It is used to indicate to other motorists that you do not realize your turn signal is blinking.

For all I know, some of my close friends could be dead. The only way to find out would be to call them up and talk to them about what's going on in their lives, and I never do that. I think this is true of many guys, even the ones who are not Humor Personalities: we do not view talking about our personal lives as an acceptable activity.

I see', said Smee, still not seeing.

Those who simply put their head down and power through this unsung province [Saskatchewan] are denying themselves its subtle powers.

The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN.

So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I'll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes, plowing through mixed metaphors, noise, and will try to show the core, which is still there, as a core, and is valid, despite the fog. The core is the core is the core. There is always the core, that can't be articulated. Only caricatured.

When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it's cruel and wrong and we all know this.

Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.

When I was very young I couldn't watch anything black and white on TV because I knew the people moving were now dust.