Quotes About Awareness

I've noticed that dreams can be a precursor to self-confession – a kind of pre-confession.

People want to be understood and to understand, but for most of us, our biggest problem is that we don't know what our problem is. We keep stepping in the same puddle.

Rather than steering people straight to the heart of the problem, we nudge them to arrive there on their own, because the most powerful truths—the ones people take the most seriously—are those they come to, little by little, on their own.

She wasn't willing to look at what she was doing that made it difficult for people to give her what she wanted.

I hadn't considered that if the only thing that keeps you going all day is knowing you'll get to turn on the TV after dinner, you probably are depressed.

Looking death in the eye would force them to live more fully—not in the future, with some long list of goals, but right now.

It's not that she's hiding her feelings; it's that she can't access them. There's a word for this kind of emotional blindness: alexithymia. She doesn't know what she's feeling or doesn't have the words to express it.

Sometimes we are the cause of our difficulties. And if we can step out of our own way, something astonishing happens.

Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.

My father used to say there are two kinds of people. The notices and the noticed.

There's too much information out there. And not enough smart people.

It was Aunt Lovey's belief that all ordinary people led extraordinary lives, but just didn't notice.

My father used to say there are two kinds of people: the noticers and the noticed

Read it slow as you can. It's like a fine meal. You don't want to gulp it, but savor it so you can taste it in your memory when you're lone done.

I feel both isolated from poverty – I do not know what my neighbors need or if they need anything – and surrounded by it because now we know all about the hunger and death in the world, and everyone is my neighbor.

Jennings, barely listening to the little girls' chatter, sat amazed at the way life continued. He was not the same person.

Except he hadn't fully appreciated what he had until it was gone.

Pay attention to your breathing," she chided. "Not my butt.

Dear Lord, had he seen her cheetah-print panties?

There's none so blind as those who will not see.

The effects of untreated mental health issues ripple throughout families for generations.

There's such a stigma attached to mental illness that people are often reluctant to talk about it, or admit that they, or someone they love, needs help.

biggest troublemaker you'll ever meet stares you in the face when you brush your teeth. —Dutch Callahan

when he was a little kid he'd had trouble understanding why those poor children in China were more important to them than he was.