Quotes About Awareness

With fierce hate harbored by a few and complacency displayed by the rest. All it takes for evil to take hold and flourish is for men and women of conscience to do nothing.

How did it ever come to this?" I asked him. "The same way it always has and—to our great misfortune—probably always will. With fierce hate harbored by a few and complacency displayed by the rest. All it takes for evil to take hold and flourish is for men and women of conscience to do nothing.

it was futile to whisper because Yasha could hear a tick burp at fifty yards.

Let me ask around. In the meantime, you need to keep that trinket out of sight, and you need to be careful." "I'm always careful." Garadin gave me the look. You know the one. "Whenever I can," I added.

He knew what he did because all Venetians knew it.

You can't be any earthly good if your head is always in the heavens.

To him, the day was what was offered, not what wasn't.

above all, I knew love. In me and beside me and around me. Behind me and before me.

OBJECTS IN DREAMS MAY BE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel on the fringes, in the margins of life. And that's where we belong. What you are a part of, you cannot observe.

In the words of Roger Tory Peterson, "The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many—perhaps all—of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the

How often ... do we pass by a need, a life that could be changed with the smallest bit of effort? And it's not that we don't care but that we're driving so fast, all we see are the fence posts flashing by on the side of the highway? Maybe the first step in changing the world is in slowing down and looking through the fences.

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't.

Not appreciating the noise until she was surrounded by silence.

They showed me what a stable life could look like. If they hadn't bothered, how would I have even known there was another way to live? You can't aspire to something you've never seen.

In those moments, I'd known that something new was being formed in me, too, created so gently that I hadn't even realized it until that evening by the shore.

Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

But ain't it always the way, Birdie, that the easiest faults to find in other people are the ones you got yourself?

I'm trying to impress upon my students that everyone has a history. Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

Through all my adult life, I had wanted to know exactly where I was going and what path to take to get there. I had never considered the beauty of where I was.

hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things.

In a fractured world, sensitivities related to race, economic class, and geographical dialects have justly increased. Modern ears don't skip casually over words that would have been commonplace a half century ago, or variations in dialect that remain the norm in other parts of the country today. Hopefully that means we're more aware—but it also puts us in danger of sanitizing what is and what was.

I leaf through more pages, wondering, remembering, thinking about this watershed year. Life can turn on a dime. The appointment book reinforces my new awareness of this. We plan our days, but we don't control them.