Quotes About Awareness

I tried to let myself just... be. It was hard to let not knowing what was about to happen be a good thing. But I tried it out. Being in the moment. Not in the past or in the future. In this moment now.

Children can't learn antiracism if they don't have the practice of observing, naming, and discussing race in their tool kit.

I'd been troubled throughout high school that in my robustly multiracial school my advanced placement classes were almost exclusively white. I knew something was wrong.

Because during trauma it is usually not safe or possible for individuals to consciously access their emotional reactions or experiences, awareness often emerges after trauma ceases." KNOWING AND NOT KNOWING ABOUT TRAUMA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THERAPY

Life is precious and we don't realize that at the time.

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed. A few people cried. Most people were silent.

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

I turned my attention back to Kaitlin, who now appeared to be very conscientiously stalking my shoelace.

Hands reached past me to turn on the faucet. I should have jumped. I should have panicked. But somehow, my body relaxed into the person behind me.

You know that just because you ignore something, that doesn't make it go away.

When you were a kid," he continued, his voice even and low, "Your mother taught you to observe people. She also taught you not to get attached.

It's not a ridiculous idea." Sloane stood up. Her voice trembled. "You just can't see it. You don't understand it. But just because you don't understand something doesn't mean you get to ignore it. You can't just pretend the pattern doesn't exist and hope it goes away." -Sloane

Information is power. You can never know ahead of time which pieces will be worth the most.

I understand you've been spending some time in the company of my son." Adam's father had a disconcerting stare. His eyes were hazel, close in color to my own, but there was an uncanny awareness in them—like he knew what you'd had for breakfast that morning and how you would sleep that night.

I could feel him in the room,

you have to see the world to change it.

There was something intense in those words, in the expression on his face—like the boy who'd learned to see the world saw me.

I was done knowing better , when I didn't really know anything at all.

My body recognized him before my mind did. His arms beat against the water in a brutally efficient butterfly stroke. And his back muscles…

It's not the things you can't find that haunt you. It's when you choose not to look.

Evie," Grayson murmured. "We need to be careful." Evie?

I have to say, Heiress, I'm not a big fan of comas.

It makes perfect sense—Hawthorne sense.