Quotes About Awareness

There is a part on 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.

My hand found the kitchen light switch before I could remember that I might not know where it was.

Non conta la consapevolezza che non dovrebbe, che non lo farebbe mai. Ciò che importa è che potrebbe farlo, se volesse. Il potere di fare del male è uno stato di benessere. ... Pagina 105

No man should be told he's a god while he still lives,' he said at last. 'It doesn't promote good thinking.

It is your own thought that takes you away from the joy of the moment.

Your body hears everything your mind says.

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet.

It comes, I suppose," I said thoughtfully, speaking to the air, "of spending too much time alone indoors, and forgetting that living things don't always stay where you put them.

The results showed a fivefold increase in breast cancer risk among women with high levels of serum DDT or its metabolites.59 DDT does cause cancer, it does affect human health, and it does cost human lives. Rachel Carson was not wrong.

assumptions are not perceived as such."98 They are so embedded as to go unrecognized as assumptions, and this is most likely to occur in homogeneous communities.

A third of all Americans think that Saddam Hussein was behind the attacks on September 11.3 Nearly a quarter still think that there's no solid evidence that smoking kills.4 And as recently as 2007, 40 percent of Americans believed that scientific experts were still arguing about the reality of global warming.5

And so began her own life, a secret life. She had no idea where it would lead her, but only that she had no choice. Once you see, you cannot unsee.

You taught me to care when I asked someone, 'How are you?,' to listen to the answer. You taught me that the people who don't ask, who don't speak, who are sitting alone on the sidelines, they are the people we need to sit down next to, not the ones who crowd around us.

Anyone who says, "Here's my address, write me a poem," deserves something in reply. So I'll tell a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.

you will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing

Bright green eyes, long lashes, and a chiseled body. The combination is enough that even I, the notoriously sexless Rayne Garner, had to take notice.

And when you've fought to earn your place amongst the living, you get to enjoy the spoils," he grimaces. "So I drink more and I fuck more. Because unlike some normal asshole in a normal tie sitting behind his normal computer, I know what lurks in the dark.

Second life lesson, kid: always know what you're getting yourself into.

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

Next to the habit of drifting, the most dangerous human trait is the lack of caution.

The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.