Quotes About Awareness

Major offenses like this one, as well as minor indignities, or what psychologist Chester Pierce (1995) referred to as micro-aggressions, are so common and pervasive that for many parents, preparing their Black sons for the likelihood of an

mira bien lo que te advierto: que seas humilde y blando, porque quizá estás soñando, aunque ves que estás despierto.

Wake me not if this is vision, Let me sleep not if 'tis true.

No, I dream not, since I know What I am and what I've been.

If I saw myself erewhile Prisoned, bound, kept out of sight, 'Twas that never on my mind Dawned the truth; but now I know Who I am — a mingled show Of the man and beast combined.

a quien le daña el saber homicida es de sí mismo!

Ay de ti, que soberbia vas mostrando sin saber que están soñando!

que a quien le daña el saber homicida es de sí mismo!

Es uno el que está atento solo a las cosas que le competen y entonces recorta del infinito caos cotidiano justo lo que lo interpela?

Eres los sabores que tuviste en la boca de niño. Eres lo que tocaste en esa edad, esa plastilina que ibas ablandando de tanto tocarla. Las cosas que escuchaste y se quedaron allí, dentro de la cabeza, con un eco de por vida. También eres los aromas que te abrieron los ojos.

Every speech has a job to do, and no matter who you are, pope, president, poet or pipe layer, if you're giving a speech you have to understand what its job is and work to make sure it's done.

I think that to achieve true adulthood is to understand the simplicity of things.

Activists are correct in saying that the only thing that 100 percent of rapes have in common is a rapist. You can shroud women from head to toe, forbid them alcohol, imprison them in their homes—and there will still be rape.

Ödet binder dig icke vid okunnigheten.

You are the sky. Everything else – it's just the weather.

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart...

Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.

Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape -- all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.

You are the sky. Everything else—it's just the weather.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

Understanding makes the mind lazy.

Perhaps there is always something in our head that is ready to learn.