Quotes About Awareness

she realized that her mind was so full of beauty she had no room for words.

hasn't," Kennedy reminded

These children, she thought. This generation will all be deaf by thirty.

The universe is always speaking to us. ... Sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

A good friend once said, "If you break your arm, people rush to bring you flowers, food, and sympathy, but if your mind breaks even just a little, people run away, frightened and dismayed.

Mom said when she brought us beachcombing? She told us to always believe in something more. She told us to look at what was right in front of us, and we'd see that even a grain of sand was a miracle. That even a bit of glass was a message, that the universe was full of tricks and clues and signs.

Your generation does everything so fast I think you've forgotten how to enjoy the pleasures of going slow.

My biggest Buff Orpinton rooster is on the small corral fence letting the world know he is in charge, all puffed up and sassy. There is nothing more silly than a rooster taking over the world, but every day he things he can. I wonder if we are just a little part of the world, like that rooster, and that the real things go on around us while we strut in our own yards trying to take charge of things.

I have particularly acute hearing, but Gran had obviously forgotten this fact.

Every noise, whether inside or out, had me opening my eyes wide to search out any possible danger until exhaustion finally claimed me and I slept.

As long as I live, when you need help, you will never need to beg anyone to notice. I won't just hang around thinking I ought to do something to help. I will act.

Continued pain is a signal to the body that there's something wrong, not right. Lucy Scarborough Nancy Werlin

If you think you already know what you're looking at, you might not see what's really there.

The more we hear ourselves grumble and complain, the more we take it to heart and believe our own words.

Savor your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.

She listens at doors and around corners. She has always had this habit. A child in danger must learn to pay more attention to the adults than a child loved and cherished.

There is a part in each of us which holds fast to the old truth: either you are the hunter or you are the prey. Learn which you are. Act accordingly. Your life depends upon it.

Now they will know," shouts one woman into Tunde's camera, "that they are the ones who should not walk out of their houses alone at night. They are the ones who should be afraid.

To witness is the first responsibility.

Ahora saben que son ellos los que no deben salir de casa solos de noche. Son ellos los que deben tener miedo —grita una mujer a la cámara

The knowledge is as good as freedom.

Nuestros sueños son más auténticos que nuestro despertar

That those who live narrow lives have only themselves to blame when they find themselves shocked.

They'd separated the boys from the girls on the fifth day; it seemed obvious, when they worked out the girls were doing it. Already there are parents telling their boys not to go out alone, not to stray too far. "Once you've seen it happen," says a gray-faced woman on TV. "I saw a girl in the park doing that to a boy for no reason, he was bleeding from the eyes. The eyes. Once you've seen that happen, no mom would let her boys out of her sight.