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Quotes About Awareness

The truths of the world wish to be known, but they won't force themselves upon you the way lies will. They'll court you, whisper to you, play behind your eyelids, slip inside and warm your blood, dance along your spine and caress your neck until your flesh rises in bumps.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Do not pass a rose without stopping to smell it. It is a gift that may not always be there.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Observing and understanding are two different things.
~ Mary E. Pearson
For we must not just be ready, for the enemy without, but also for the enemy within. And so shall it be, Sisters of my heart, Brothers of my soul, Family of my flesh, For evermore.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Things I can feel. Hard. Soft. Rough. Smooth. But the inside kind of feel, it is all the same, like foggy mush. Is that the part of me that is still asleep? (9)
~ Mary E. Pearson
Tell me who I am. (29)
~ Mary E. Pearson
My memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. They click, click, click into my brain, like links being snapped together. And then they are done. A small chain of memories that fill in one tiny part of my life. They come out of nowhere, and most are not important.
~ Mary E. Pearson
People will notice the beauty of what they usually ignore ~
~ Mary E. Pearson
I realized there were assumptions we made about people, and once we did, that was all we could see
~ Mary E. Pearson
Sometimes it's the smallest and most innocent things you have to watch out for
~ Mary E. Pearson
When I was halfway between one world and another, a moment of clarity broke through. This is what it was to die. *
~ Mary E. Pearson
Ethan knows more about himself than he ever wanted to know, and I know less than I should.
~ Mary E. Pearson
She never promised me tomorrows, and now I knew why.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Hear the language that isn't spoken, Kazi, the breaths, the pauses, the fisted hands, the vacant stares, the twitches and tears, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them.
~ Mary E. Pearson
sometimes you can't begin to know everything you've lost until someone shows you what you might have had.
~ Mary E. Pearson
thankfulness for this one moment, regardless of what the morrow might bring.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Never let one handful of soil slip through your fingers, or you will lose it all.
~ Mary E. Pearson
There is magic in everything, only you must watch for it. It does not come from spells or potions or the sky, nor by special delivery
~ Mary E. Pearson
Write it down, before you forget. And each day we do. But we can only write about Now. Before is already gone, except for the nightmares.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Meditation leads you to your spiritual information, and takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself and your creations.
~ Unknown
I was always observing. Even while talking, living, going through every motion, I was watching myself and the situation. That's a writer. Always observing.
~ Unknown
Everything was insanely alive, now you see it, now you don't. I thought, it's the light, it's the water, it's changing every second, it's always doing this whether I'm here to witness it or not.
~ Unknown
It's not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.
~ Mary Ellen Mark
Of course there's something there; unfortunately, there's always something 'there.' Something you will one day be sorry you saw.
~ Mary Gaitskill