Quotes About Awareness

Maybe grace was all around me, bubbling through, passing under my feet, and I'd never seen it because I'd never tried to see.

Listen, the road seems to admonish. Listen. I have stories. I close my eyes, and I hear voices. Thousands whispering all at once. I can't make out any single one, but I know they're here. What do they have to say?

It occurred to me that I should do more for other people. I never once considered that there were people just down the road who cannot afford proper clothing, or care for their children.

Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.

I'm trying to impress upon my students that everyone has 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.

You'll make a lot of excuses for yourself while you're letting your life tumble down a well. It's not until you hit bottom that you see what a deep hole you're in.

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw, the less he spoke; The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

Take a breath, look around, a voice seemed to be whispering. None of this is here by accident, and neither are you.

several weeks ago. I told myself

When I was little, I'd attended a neighborhood potluck there with Poppy and Aunt Ruth. There were tables full of casseroles, salads, and desserts. Was it possible that, now, just down the road, children were looking for food in trash cans?

When addiction runs in your family, you can't take chances. You can't try it once to see what it's like. One time can be the beginning of something you can't stop.

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.

I am transported to the time before the War between the States, a time that is bred into our awareness as Southerners, yet most often lauded as a day of grace and grandeur. Mr. Bass Carter causes me to wonder . . . how different is that history when seen from the fields and the lowly slave cabins?

Stop looking ahead, stop looking back. Stop... look around.

How sad, I think now, to live an entire life blinded by the ordinary.

It's history," I pointed out. "I'm trying to impress upon my students that everyone has 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

It's funny how when you think you've got problems, you usually don't have to look far to find someone who's in a lot worse shape.

The appointment book reinforces my new awareness of this. We plan our days, but we don't control them.

When the mind's been lost from the body, it can't always find the way home.

Fear got faster feet than truth, sometime.

I would have lived more fully in the moment, realize how easily a perfect day can slip by unnoticed. Any day is the glory day if you choose to see the glory in it

It's funny how mistakes are so much clearer after you've already made them.

If you could know —if you could always know —when the lasts in life are coming, you'd handle them differently. You'd savor. You'd stop. You'd let nothing else invade the moment.

She looked around the room then, and her eyes got misty, and she said we kids oughta remember there was a time when some folks had it a lot harder than others. I couldn't see how things were so different now.