Quotes About Awareness

Non mi fu mai dato di vedere un animale in cordoglio di sé. Un uccelletto cadrà morto di gelo giù dal ramo senza aver provato mai pena per se stesso.

We must know. We will know.

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

Age, mental illness, and failure are all in the mind. They put the pain there to let you know it hurts.

As the Southern Poverty Law Center explained: "white skin privilege is not something that white people necessarily do, create or enjoy on purpose," but is rather an unavoidable consequence of the "transparent preference for whiteness that saturates our society." In other words, even if white Americans were no longer racists, they were.

Maybe everyone was part con man. Maybe everybody was in the game, and Phil just knew better than anyone else how to play.

I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.

Peter didn't want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it.

He said there are two ways for a hitter to get the pitch he wants. The simplest way is not to want any pitch in particular. But the best way, he said -- which sounds almost the same, but is really very different -- is to want the very pitch you're gonna get. Including the one you can handle. But also the one that's gonna strike you out looking. And even the one that's maybe gonna bounce off your head.

I simply knew, via song, sunlight, redwings and cottonwoods, that there was a world I was born to live in, that the men I was standing beside lived in another, and that as long as I remembered this their words would never hurt me again.

Fishing is like watching baseball, he says, in that it takes such total concentration that you shouldn't even be noticing little details like your arms and legs and head and mind and the miles- long strings of questions inside it.

Overcomers concentrate on details that go unnoticed by others. They do what needs to be done, even when no one is watching.

Our conduct today is affected by what we know of tomorrow.

Surely I am coming quickly" (Revelation 22:20). The more aware we are of His impending return, the more motivated we'll be in our work for Him in these last days.

A critical person seldom recognizes his own shortcomings, only those of others (Matthew 7:3).

Ya, saya memiliki hidup yang baik, tetapi apakah saya benar-benar meluangkan waktu untuk hidup?

Dahulu, saya menggenggam erat kehidupan dalam kepalan tangan, tetapi sekarang saya sadar bahwa saya juga bisa memegangnya dengan tangan terbuka.

Imagine the thoughts in your mind as being like a garden. Whatever thoughts you water are the thoughts that will grow. When you have a horrible image in your mind, if you keep looking at it and telling yourself that you can't stop, that image will become stronger and stronger.

Kids grow up hearing fairy tales, but the biggest fairy tale of all, I realized at the age of four, is that life is safe. Life isn't safe, I learned. It's crazy. Evil is real. One minute you could be riding your bike on the way to get candy, and the next, you're dead. Anything could happen anywhere at any time. So now what? How was I supposed to live without giving in to the fear?

Reach up to the feet of God, looking for a sign...it was right here all the time...

The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing The way your touch turns into arcs The way you slide into the dark The beating of my open heart You don't know But I'm noticing

She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.

The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.