Quotes About Awareness

People believe what they want to believe. They see no evil because they don't want to. But evil is out there.

Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.

Somewhere between childhood and adulthood we can lose our sense of conscience if we're not careful.

So how could you ever eat another strawberry and not know that God loves you? I want you to think about that every time you eat a strawberry. Do you hear me?

I'd recognized it only recently. I wasn't sure if it was because she had changed or I had, but it didn't really matter. I recognized it just the same... If you just noticed the shiny veneer on the outside, they'd always look perfect. So you had to peer closer, watch them when they didn't think they were being watched. Eventually, you'd notice the dings.

I knew that none of us are made any promises, none of us are ordained to be here forever, or even for as long as we want to believe. This is what nearly being robbed of time does to you: it leaves you glancing over both shoulders, wondering when it will catch up to you, wondering when its pace will quicken so you can no longer outrun it.

The rest of them never considered time, how it moves both so quickly and so slowly that it's always just beyond your grasp.

and then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi

Somebody knows.

Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.

Why don't I know You?" "Does anyone ever really know someone else?" "You think your cute," she told him. "You think your gorgeous. But I'm the one guy here who knows better." "So I'm not gorgeous?" Macey challenged. "Of course you are," He started away, turned back at the last minute. "But I'm the guy who figured out that's not all you are.

I've thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.

Easy there," Zach said when I stumbled into him. "Now's probably not the time to get handsy. You might want to control yourself.

to know a piece of grass, you've got to see the ground that grew it. Maybe that's why I remember every detail of that night, every inch of ground we covered, as I followed Zach to the place that had made him, seeing them both with fresh eyes.

Every good operative knows that the world is small, but the planet is big.

seasoned operative should always check his or her perimeter at unexpected times and in unexpected ways.

It's simple: just give the eyes something new to look at so that the mind doesn't truly see.

And if you see a bear -" "It's more afraid of me than I am of it," Logan filled in, but Maddie stopped short. "No." She shook her head and looked at him like he might be a moron, which he probably was, "It's not afraid of you. It's a bear! So back away slowly and hope it doesn't want to kill you. Because it can without breaking a sweat." Logan studied her face, then nodded slowly. "Killer bears. Check.

watched the people I know best look at me like I was a crazy person. Trust me. It's a look I know pretty well.

You think you're cute," she told him. "You think you're gorgeous. But I'm the one guy here who knows better.

They stayed in the Shadows. But shadows are the perfect place from which to watch, to see.

And all around me, there are people. Beautiful people. Awkward people. People who are so engrossed with the person beside them that I highly doubt they even remember where they are. People who want to be anywhere but here.

I wondered if I had ever been that small. I saw the innocence in their eyes, and I knew somehow that I would never feel that way again. I'd seen too much - I knew too little.

Don't let the glitter fool you." She wiggles her shiny nails in the air, then taps her temple. "I'm up here." … "How did you…?" "Mymom is the chief operations officer for the CIA stationed in Europe," she tells me. "I pay attention." "I see that," I say.