Quotes About Awareness

Chaque instant de vie est précieux car la mort peut survenir à tout moment.

In depression, all that is happening in the present is the anticipation of pain in the future, and the present qua present no longer exists at all.

Le véritable renonçant est parfaitement sain d'esprit et bien informé de ce qui se passe autour de lui. Il ne fuit pas le monde parce qu'il est incapable de le gérer, mais se désintéresse des préoccupations futiles parce qu'il en voit les inconvénients.

I have not been deaf to truth" and "I have not winked at injustice.

Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference?

I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

The awareness at each moment of what is intolerable in the world (tortures, oppression, unhappiness, hunger, the camps) is not tolerable: it bends, sinks, and he who exposes himself to it sinks with it. The awareness is not awareness in general. All knowledge of what everywhere is intolerable will at once lead knowledge astray. We live thus between straying and a half-sleep. To know this is already enough to stray.

He would never know what he knew. That was loneliness.

One's thinking about me makes me feel this self; one's not thinking about me leaves me in this self that exceeds me."-"At least disappear in this thought.

They do not think of death, having no other relation but with death.

How is it possible? Already another year gone by? How could it go so quickly!' Perhaps it is because one takes up too many moments remembering, reliving times past.

Man is like a blind person who denies the existence of light because he doesn't see it. Light is a great mystery, for the blind!

El hombre se asemeja a un ciego que niega la luz porque no la ve. ¡La luz es un hondo misterio para el ciego!

You know what the common people are like,' said Artevelde; 'they never know their own strength till the moment for using it has passed.

We are all apt to fall into the error of assuming that other people think we are as important as we do ourselves; but unless there is some particular reason for their remembering it, others forget what has happened to us very quickly; and, even if they have not forgotten, their memories attach much less weight to it than we are inclined to believe.

Power, without the consent of those over whom it is exercised, is a fraud that cannot long endure, a delicate balance between fear and rebellion, which may suddenly be overset when enough men become aware that they all think alike.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.

To learn to love, one must first learn to see.

Never for an instant does God cease to speak; but no one thinks of opening the doors. And yet, with a little watchfulness, it were not difficult to hear the word that God must speak concerning our every act.