Quotes About Awareness

Think before you eat, people: Food should be the life of you, not the death of you.

What I wanted to say is that abuse has no bias. It's not gender specific; it's just never okay.

Emotional pain is such a strange feeling. You can forget you're in it—or try to, anyway—and then it sneaks up and finds its way to the surface.

I like the idea of keeping my thoughts all in one place, like a brain you can look into.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling." —GRACE PALEY

all it took for evil to flourish was for good men to stand by and do nothing?

I listened, thinking this was a Drew I'd never seen. One who saw her own privilege. One who was trying to do better.

long as people can still surprise you, it means you're not dead.

the hours can feel long, but the years go by fast.

Savasana—corpse pose—is the hardest pose of all. You would think, 'What could be hard about lying on the floor?' But the truth is that we, as humans, are not wired to be still and do nothing.

I wondered if, at the end, she had known that she was dying, if she'd been in pain or if she'd been afraid, and I thought about how, in spite of all the ways we were different, Drue had spent a lot of her life being lonely… just like me.

on noon at Friday

Die Zeit macht etwas mit einem Menschen, weil ein Mensch keine Maschine ist, die man an- und ausschalten kann. Die Zeit, in der ein Mensch nicht weiß, wie sein Leben ein Leben werden kann, füllt so einen Untätigen vom Kopf bis zu den Zehen.

Quante volte bisogna tornare a imparare, a scoprire e a riscoprire ciò che già si sa, quanti travestimenti bisogna strappar via per poter penetrare le cose fino all'osso?

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that's what gets you.

Speed has never killed anyone - suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

Most psychiatrists believe that the borderline syndrome has been around for quite some time; that its increasing prominence results not so much from its spreading (like an infectious disease or a chronic debilitating condition) in the minds of patients but from the awareness of clinicians. Indeed, many psychiatrists believe that some of Sigmund Freud's most interesting cases of "neurosis" at the turn of the century would today be clearly diagnosed as borderline.20

It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over.

We travelled from Oberau with a tourist agent, and he told us all his troubles.  It seems that a tourist agent is an ordinary human man, and has feelings just like we have.  This had never occurred to me before.  I told him so.