Quotes About Awareness

Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.

Too often, the anthropologist takes on the role of police detective, discovering what is "hidden," assembling "evidence" to make a strong "case"... But sometimes what is called for is not an "investigator" at all, but an attentive listener.

And I call it like I see it and my glasses on. But most of yall dont get the picture less the flash is on.

Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.

So keep your mouth closed and let your eyes listen.

Whats understood dont gotta be explained.

And everybody watch your back when youre in the front.

Don't go alone, take a guy with you!"—an especially problematic message for single women since more than 80 percent of sexual crimes are committed by someone they know.

Writers help summon people to a vision of human betterment...They create an awareness not just to things as they are, but as they ought to be." ~ Norman Cousins

Are you listening, little bird?

How had I managed to tie my boots? I didn't even remember getting dressed. I was out here in public at the mall. What was I wearing? Jeans. I could feel socks. I had my boots on. I plucked at the edge of my t-shirt and saw it was red. I was wearing Dad's spare Army jacket, and there was a heavy weight in the right pocket that had to be something deadly.

I sensed him leaning forward. It's weird to feel someone's attention on you that way, like you're the only thing in the world they're listening to. Most of the time people are distracted, or just thinking about what they're going to say next.

I just . . . knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.

Watch the death of your enemy if you can, for you have caused it. When you have killed, watch the consequences of your actions.

She reached for the glass, realized it was smudged. More pointless revulsion.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.

But she was aware that the story you think you know is never the real one. She

I meet Silas at the movie theater on Church Street. We choose seats close to the front. He's wearing a striped wool hat that he keeps on the whole movie, and our bodies never touch. I've never been more aware of not touching someone in my life.

I feel like I got most of life's lessons before i turned six. For me, other people are the point, but other people can disappear. I guess I don't have to tell you that.

Americans could surprise you with the things they knew.

I spent the rest of the morning observing the observer

You don't always see how much other people are shaping you.