Quotes About Awareness

It's nothing to be ashamed of—often the greatest difficulty faced by people suffering from mental illness is society's inexcusable ignorance of the subject.

Do the bees know they make the honey for you? Or do they work tirelessly because they think it is their own choice? Have you never noticed that, after hearing a new word for the first time in your life, you'll hear it again within twenty-four hours? Do you ever wonder why sometimes you'll see a single shoe lying along the road?

If Zoey Ashe had known she was being stalked by a man who intended to kill her and then slowly eat her bones, she would have worried more about that and less about getting her cat off the roof.

What do you think it's like, Father?" "What what's like?" "Being crazy. Mentally ill." "Well, they never know they're ill, do they? You can't diagnose yourself with the same organ that has the disease, just like you can't see your own eyeball. So, I suppose you just feel normal and the rest of the world seems to go crazy around you.

John ducked casually across some DO NOT DUCK CASUALLY ACROSS THIS TAPE tape

You are now aware that your lower jaw has weight, and that it requires effort for you to hold it up. Good evening.

Our true fear of the zombie was never that its bite would turn us into one of them. Our fear is that we are already zombies.

doing an excellent job of ignoring

Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization

I heard a screeching like steam from a teapot, and realized it was me.

She wasn't some little princess from the suburbs who just graduated college with a humanities degree, she knew what people were really like.

The carp boasted a proud, heroic lineage (though of course it was not aware of this, or anything else aside from a vague sense that being a fish was pretty sweet).

I'm scared David" "That's good, because there's lots to be afraid of

We can't even convince the public that global warming is dangerous. Why? Because carbon dioxide happens to be invisible.

Have you never noticed that, after hearing a new word for the first time in your life, you'll hear it again within twenty-four hours?

mental state

Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

The deep structure of the universe is pure consciousness.

Do you hear the ticking, Mallory, my brave, foolish, young pilot? Time—it ticks, it runs, it twists, it dilates, shrinks, and kills, and one day for each of us, no matter what we do, it stops. Stops, do you hear me?

So long as your eyes remain set upon the things of this world, your acts will lead to earthbound results.

There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality.

I scooted around the house and looked in the window and was able to really see my family in a way that was, I guess, a lot clearer, because I had a lot less sensory input. I could look in through the window and see my family and feel closer to them than if I had been in the same room.

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness - both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible.