Quotes About Awareness

And it doesn't have to be writers. I was one of millions of people not just saddened by Robin Williams's death, but scared of it, as if it somehow made it more likely for us to end up the same way.

You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."' 'What's that? A quote?' I ask. 'Fitzgerald.

So what, you have a label? "Depressive." Everyone would have a label if they asked the right professional.

People only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

I realized that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered

Your life will have 30,000 days in it. Make sure you remember some of them.

In a familiar place, your mind focuses solely on itself. There is nothing new it needs to notice about your bedroom. No potential external threats, just internal ones. By forcing yourself into a new physical space, preferably in a different country, you end up inevitably focusing a bit more on the world outside your head

Gerçek bilgelik hiçbir ÅŸey bilmediÄŸini bilmekte yatar. -Sokrates

An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.

In T.S. Eliot's phrase from his Four Quartets, I was 'distracted from distraction by distraction'.

Minds can't see what they can't handle.

Reading isn't important because it helps to get you a job. It's important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you're given.

?i-a dat seama c? , oricât de sincer ai fi în via?? , oamenii v?d adev?rul doar dac? este suficient de aprope de realitatea lor.

saya rasa kehidupan selalu menyediakan alasan agar kita tidak mati, seandainya kita memasang telinga baik-baik. Alasan-alasan itu bisa berasal dari masa lalu - mungkin orang-orang yang membesarkan kita, sahabat-sahabat, atau para mantan kekasih - atau dari masa depan - ada kemungkinan-kemungkinan yang kita matikan.

When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitude and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person.

We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility. So let's be kind to the people in our own existence. Let's occasionally look up from the spot in which we are because, wherever we happen to be standing, the sky above goes on for ever.

So let's be kind to the people in our own existence. Let's occasionally look up from the spot in which we are because, wherever we happen to be standing, the sky above goes on for ever.

She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see

You sometimes have to look at what you know is there and discover the things right in front of you. The people you love.

It's easy not to judge people for having an illness, its a lot harder not to judge people for how the illness occasionally caused them to behave. Because people can't see the reasons.

We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

We are the subject in the sentence.