Quotes About Awareness

He knows he is missing something. He is always missing something. He can never get past the first stop of finding it, which is knowing what it is.

I've known this for a while, but you can know something for years without it really hitting you. Now it's hitting me.

I don't even know what I'm looking for, although I hope I'll know it if I find it along the way. Sometimes I want to simplify my life into a simple bare thing. And other times I want to complicate it so thoroughly that everything I touch will become bound in some way to me. I've become quite aware of my contradictions, but there's no true resolution in that.

Choose your actions wisely.

I am trying not to think of what will happen next. I am trying not to think of endings.

Going through the motions gives you plenty of time to examine the motions. I used to find this interesting. Now it has taken on the taint of meaninglessness.

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.

But empty-with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

We wish we could offer you a creation myth, an exact reason why you are the way you are, why when you read this sentence, you will know it's about you.

I am starting to realize what this means, and how sad it would be. I am already feeling some of the sadness now, and it isn't even happening.

Why do you want to put more smoke inside of you?

She looked like she was waking up in a strange place—only she knew she hadn't gone to sleep yet, and that this was actually life.

some things you don't need to hear in order to hear. The mind has an ear of its own and sometimes memory is the fiercest fucking DJ alive.

But does he see everything, or only what he wants to be seeing? This is always one of the great questions of love.

and at first i didn't really know jed was although i was sure he knew that i was but gradually we both knew and we knew.

I'm insane. But I tell them this. I tell them to consider blessings. The thing about blessings is that they aren't just delivered to you. There is some mystery to their appearance, but once they're in your reach, you have to do something for them.

You hear the phrase all the time: a brush with death. What they don't tell you is that the brush has paint on it. And once it touches you, you can't get it off.

Ik verbaas me altijd over mensen die weten dat iets fout is, maar dat proberen te negeren, alsof het foute daardoor zou verdwijnen.

Life is so hard. I see it everywhere. I see the homeless people on the street. I see how tragically humans have hurt the earth. How terribly they hurt each other. I also know how lucky I was. I would take my privilege for granted.

We know: An almost certain way to die is to believe you are already dead.

What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of lives would have been saved.

I do believe that most of the time your life changes, you don't realise in the moment that it's on the cusp of being altered.

Seeing it erases any premonitions I might have had, because even if I felt something was wrong, I never would have pictured this.

I think that this might be the easiest way to live — just concentrate On the small things, and never let your mind wander on big things