Quotes About Awareness

All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover what I was.

People who respect themselves...are willing to invest something of themselves; they may not play at all, but when they do play, they know the odds. That kind of self-respect is a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be developed, trained, coaxed forth.

when she drank she did not dream.

we live blindly. We repeat the same mistakes by rote until an emotional punch to the gut brings us up short. ...Sometimes it requires intense pain before we can take a good hard look at ourselves, before we ask the important questions. ... Who am I? What is important? What do I believe? What do I want?

Get over yourself - You are not the center of the universe.' 'Understand that life itself (and emotions) are impermanent.

She understood very well that when you took a good look under a clear, hard light, the world was a fucked-up hellhole. Most people knew this, she'd known this, but nobody wanted to think about it all the time. It didn't pay to forget for too long.

there is some sweet seduction in feeling another admires us—a notion so flattering that some return of esteem takes place without our quite being aware

The clear-cuts soured all of us

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too. [ Existence (1975)]

This is awful," Sally said. "Why should it be so painful?" "Because you don't realize how important your human landscape is until bits drop away." He gripped her hand. "It's worse when you get older. In your twenties, you never think—

Lecture your children every day. You may not know what they did wrong, but they do!

Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.

The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.

Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket; before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I saw him stoop to offer one to the dog. A pat, a bark, a wagging of the short stubby tail. As I said, some people never have to think about giving.

Knowledge is currency here....

Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know.

The master is not the one who teaches; it's the one who suddenly learns.

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.