Quotes About Awareness

And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow.

Being alive isn't the same thing as living

I guess I forgot we were going out tonight. We always go out on Fridays. It's Thursday, Alvis. You are so tied to routine.

Whole worlds exist beneath the surface. And maybe you can't see down there, Michael thought, but there's a part of you that knows.

But it's not easy, realising how we fucked it all up. And that turns out to be the hardest thing to live with, not the regret or the fear, but the realisation that the edge is so close to where we live.

It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do you know what I mean, Pasquale?

But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do you know what I mean, Pasquale?

But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do you know what I mean, Pasquale?" He did know what she meant! It was just how he felt—like someone sitting in the cinema waiting for the film to start.

For years. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.

It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.

Among the world's evils—fascism, ethnic cleansing, environmental degradation— smoking deserves the most severe curricular attention in my kid's school.

But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do

the world is built to eat you alive, but before you go down the gullet, the bastards can't stop you from looking around.

There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. —Milan Kundera   T

Some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start." (P54)

Finn is God: If you get off your high horse, you'll notice that it, too, poops.

Nobody gets their period for the first time and has a nervous breakdown next to a Kohler toilet. Men have such stupid ideas about menstruation, don't they, Julie?

How you find love means nothing. It's what you do with it when you see it that does. And when Julie looked at Matt, she unquestionably saw love.

Justin: I know where you live. Justin: Wait, I didn't mean that in a creepy way... Justin: Hello? Oh gawd... Did I freak you out? Justin: I just meant that I would know where to pick you up. And it's not like I'd show up in a van with the windows all blacked out. That'd be super creepy. Justin: I drive a Prius. Justin: Nobody gets abducted in a Prius, right?

They say if your ears are burning then someone is talking about you. Is that true? Because I have a question about what it means if it's a different body part.

I never said that I knew everything. I'm just confident that I'm well-informed on many subjects.

Even though I was only sixteen, I knew enough to understand that it was one of the most important and most powerful moments I would ever have.

I'm sorry. I had the volume at a very high level, and the world sort of disappeared.

What does it take for a person to be able to recognize evil as it unfolds? To see with foresight and acuity .