Quotes About Awareness

Parents think the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is cancer. They're wrong; the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is mental illness.

You couldn't get where you were going without knowing where you'd been. And you couldn't be anywhere at all without having been almost there for a while.

But patience, real patience, meant more than simply waiting. Patience meant you had to honor the moments before things happened the same way you honored the moments when they did.

Basically, the conscious mind is like the hardware of your computer. The subconscious mind is its operating system. It's composed of code—or all those underlying patterns and connections that were laid down during your childhood. You can't see that code, but it runs the show. It's the engine that determines how you react to the world at large versus how you respond to it.

But once we have a practice for taming our Imposters, we're able to get in touch with a much bigger star in the constellation of our lives: the Authentic Soul.

Many of us grow up feeling as if we are not truly seen for who we are; we grow up feeling invisible. The act of eye-gazing galvanizes the simple but extraordinary power of being seen in a transcendent but deeply personal way.

Understanding your subconscious and your conscious mind is the key to cultivating self-awareness.

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You Know What They Say " Forewarned is Forearmed " - Anna Maria

I'm talking about kids, Mrs. H. Terrible, dreadful, blasted awful kids. They've all got a darkness inside them. They've all got the capacity for evil. Give them free range over a piece of territory, like that out there, and you've got Lord of the Flies. You cannot afford to take your eye off the ball for a second. Not for even a second....

Libby can hear the whisper of every moment that this room has existed. Feel every breath of every person who has ever sat where she is sitting.

I'd subliminally determined at this point that the only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk.

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I'd subliminally determined at this point that the only ay to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any measure.

And how many stories has she missed all these years while she's been so wrapped up in her own?

her sleep vigilantly

Kim scans it quickly

It scares me sometimes how much room in my tiny little brain is taken up by things like the name of Liz Hurley's new boyfriend.

see what is in his eyes: the truth. He knows that Justin's suicide note is a fiction. He knows that my tears are theatrical. He knows that I killed Birdie. And he knows that I know he knows.

They don't know who the prime minister is; they don't know what day of the week, month or even year it is. They can't quite remember their daughters' names and they certainly can't remember if they had lunch today or what the plan is for supper tonight.

I'd subliminally determined at this point that the only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any measure.

the only way to really know what was going on in the world was to listen to women talk. Anyone who ignores the chatter of women is poorer by any

the point of shopping is to look at things, not to buy

Take too much time, and time will take you.