Quotes About Awareness

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?

There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

The mind is a remarcable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting

Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?

There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.

You can't blame someone if they honestly don't understand that their reality isn't the same as yours.

How similar does someone have to be to you before you remember to see them, first, as human?

We are all drowning slowly in the tide of our opinions, oblivious that we are taking on water every time we open our mouths.

I had always been suspicious of women who described the dissolution of their marriages as something that happened overnight. How could you not know? I'd thought. How could you miss all those signs? Well, let me tell you how: you were so busy putting out a fire directly in front of you that you were completely oblivious to the inferno raging at your back.

If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.