Quotes About Awareness

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

O Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!

Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

What we know is a drop. What we don't know is an ocean.

What we know is a drop. What we don't know is the ocean.

No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.

One cannot simply perceive everything, to be able to perceive everything would be to tedious

You should therefore contrive and practice some proper methods to acquaint yourself with your own ignorance, and to impress your mind with a deep and painful sense of the low and imperfect degrees of your present knowledge, that you may be incited with labor and activity to pursue after greater measures.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.

Problems arise for the introverts because they often do not look closely enough at the outer situation and, therefore, do not really see it. The extraverts often do not stop looking at the specific situation long enough to see the underlying idea.

Unless thinkers carry their respect for cause and effect into the field of human relations, they may not have much awareness of people.

el reconocimiento de que tenemos

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.

You don't need to put someone under for a blood transfusion! [pauses, realizes] It's more than that, isn't it?

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same kind of immersion. Often the best stories hold you back and make you witness them. This may be one of the reasons some people reject the form. That and the fact that they are harder work to read. A story will not let you get comfortable and settle in. It is like a stool that is so small that you must always be aware of sitting.

Sometimes it is hard to know what the truth is. And sometimes truth is pain. Easier to hide the truth and make a secret of it, than to face it. -Chapter 22, page 254

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.