Quotes About Awareness

As Helen, Edward and Louise grew up they had come to recognise their mother's outlook for what it was. They realised with discomfort that she was not so much egotistical as fettered – trapped within a perpetual adolescence. She moved for ever within a landscape whose only point of reference was herself.

All my life, she thought, I have let things pass me by.

He realised that he was probably unwell in some way, but it did not seem to be a state of ill health about which anything could be done; you could not go to the doctor and say that you didn't know what season it was.

Gardening has this embracing quality in that it colours the way you look at the world.

There are some supremely agreeable moments in life that are best savoured alone -- the first barefoot step into a cold sea, the reading of certain books, the revelation that it has snowed in the night, waking up on one's birthday... And others the full wonder of which can only be achieved if someone else is there to observe.

Sometimes thoughts merely pass through a man's head without mishap, but sometimes they fall out of his mouth on the way through.

Todos devemos ter percepção das nossas responsabilidades.

Son, as long as you live, Satan will use what you see and what you hear against you.

A bitter awareness that everything is a sensation of mine and at the same time something external, something not in my power to change. Ah, how often my own dreams have raised up before me as things, not to replace reality but to declare themselves its equal

My happiest moments are those when I think nothing, want nothing, and dream nothing, being lost in a torpor like some accidental plant, like mere moss growing on life's surface. I savour without bitterness this absurd awareness of being nothing, this foretaste of death and extinction.

Dac? ar putea s? gândeasc?, inima s-ar opri.

I'm older than Time and Space because I'm conscious.

Living is in itself dying because every new day we enjoy is another day of our lives lost.

These of us who have risen highest merely have a deeper awareness of how uncertain and empty everything is.

Emily did not want to believe in ghosts. But she kept seeing them. She had been seeing them ever since she could remember.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

Where do they come from, thoughts? Like wrens, out of the sky. They arrive. Noisy, hungry, perfectly themselves.

She could see herself still blushing and he was looking at her with those big dark eyes, as if he knew. But that was a trick of his, not an intentional trick but a misleading sign. He saw nothing.It looked as if he could see everything and people always gave him credit for it.

Because the search for happiness can be like the search for your spectacles when they're sittin' on your

In today's world more harm may be done by well-intentioned people trying to do good, who are unaware of the unintended consequences of their actions, than by people actually trying to cause harm.

He smelled meat burning and realized that it was him.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.