Quotes About Awareness

I'm aware of my limits. That isn't the same as liking them. (Karrin Murphy)

The last thing the twenty-first century wants to admit is that it might not know everything.

Over the years I've learned that ignorance is more than just bliss. It's freaking orgasmic ecstasy.

If Lara wanted me dead, it would have happened already. It would have been abrupt, swift, and well executed, and I probably wouldn't have had much of a chance to respond. I might never realize it had happened

You're unconscious, moron," my double said to me. "We can finally talk to one another.

A big assumption. And when you assume, you make an ass out of you and umption.

There are a few things everyone should know about Newfoundland. First and foremost is how to pronounce it correctly.

Consider every choice carefully, no matter how small, for it will affect the bigger decisions you make.

God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening.

Complacency happens almost without notice. Check and renew your heart daily.

God's various blessings are not always obvious.

If you live on the railroad tracks the train's going to hit you, Grandpa used to say. -- Brown Dog

He looked around the clearing in recognition that he was lost but didn't mind because he knew he had never been found.

Animals spend a lot of time being still so when we do they lose their logical mistrust of us.

I hadn't noticed the green of summer enough and now the colors were gray and white and black.

The present passes too quickly to notice and I've never had a grip on the future, even as an idea.

Much earlier in this century an Austrian journalist, Karl Kraus, pointed out that if you actually perceived the true reality behind the news you would run, screaming, into the streets. I have run screaming into the streets dozens of times but have always managed to return home in time for dinner-and usually an hour early so that I can help in the preparation.

Young people seem not to know that they are going to get old, but older people know that they are not going to become young again.

You live in a beautiful place and you don't act like you know it.

Life is short. Why not be familiar with all of it?

Combien de fois avons-nous entendu dire que cinq millions d'enfants se couchent tous les soirs en ayant faim ? Sans doute moins souvent que toutes les fois où nous avons lu ou vu des articles où l'on faisait l'éloge de la richesse.

Treasure what you find already in your pocket, friend.

There can be a wonderful substratum of thinking going on beneath the banal tonnage of human behavior. Perhaps

I admired the way she was staying a single step in front of her madness in the way that so many of us do by merely watching the clock where each tick brings us safely over the lip of the future, our madness a split second behind us.