Quotes About Awareness

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,--the light which, showing the way, forbids

In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her.

She let her mind wander back over her stay at Grand Isle; and she tried to discover wherein this summer had been different from any and every other summer of her life. She could only realize that she herself--her present self--was in some way different from the other self. That she was seeing with different eyes and making the acquaintance of new conditions in herself that colored and changed her environment, she did not yet suspect.

GeçmiÅŸ hiç yaÅŸanmam?? gibiydi... Yaln?zca bu an?n anlam? vard?, yaln?zca bu an onundu...

you're doing the same thing I am, only more slowly, and less honestly. You drive a car; you use plastic products; you do whatever the hell you do knowing full well that it's contributing to the end of everyone, and a lot of other animals besides. So don't get all more-life-affirming-than-thou with me, missy, you're on your way out too. In a way, you could see me as he canary down a mine shaft, or maybe synecdoche, the small part representing the whole.

Still, she would rather be on the lookout, sharp, overreacting, than to be caught asleep and dull-witted. When the bomb came to rip her apart, she would at least see it coming. She wanted to die on her toes if she had to die at all.

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.

you never know what's going to happen next. It keeps you on your toes. That's what Granny says. And it's important to be on your toes because you just never know what might happen next in this world.

Do not hope; instead, observe" were words that Flora, as a cynic, had found useful in the extreme. She repeated them to herself a lot.

I have a deep gratitude that Ida B exists.

He must, he realized, know somewhere, deep inside him, more things than he had ever dreamed of.

We do not know what will become. What will become is what becomes, and that is all we know.

Hey, disease boy!" Norton shouted. "We know what you got. It's called

But Clarence probably had cares. Because that is what it means to be alive on this infinitesimally spinning planet. It means you have cares. Doesn't it?

Sorry.' He lowered his head and sniffed the floor. But, reader, he was not smelling. He was listening, with his big ears, to the sweet sound that no other mouse seemed to hear.

Every action leaves its wake. Even the slightest of people makes a whisper within the world, if only you pause to listen for a soft breath on your cheek.

You learn to ride on the path and keep your eyes open so you can see what is there, not what you wish were there.... And then after all you might discover that what is there is what you wished for all along.

Proceed cautiously with people who can no longer be bowled over by wonder.

And without even trying, she fell in love. Not with some guy who sent her an e-mail or posted a profile. No, she'd found someone else. Someone who'd always been around but to whom she'd never really given a second thought. Herself.

Why didn't they warn us at school? I'm sure if some teacher had said, Oh and by the way, it feels like someone sandpapering your cervix, they needn't have bothered with all the AIDS warnings and morality stuff.

Sometimes I wish I could look away, like other people seem to be able to do. Not feel it's my job to put things right.

If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through

Wherever you go, the most of life will have to happen in your mind.

You must excel at the basic responsibilities of your job—and so you need to be certain what they are. Sure