Quotes About Awareness

I need you to recover your senses and let your poor bodyguard onto that roof.

There's only so much one can do with Mercury in retrograde, but…" She let out a long, theatrical breath.

I guess you never know what other people are thinking, do you?

How will we know if it's changing us?" I asked. "Maybe we won't. The biggest changes happen so slowly you hardly notice them.

Sometimes a butterfly is not just a butterfly. This is what Oma taught me. You know the worst thing I learned from her? You can be a monster and not even know you are one. They look like us. They think they are us. But really, they've got a monster hiding inside.

There's nothing in that water except what we bring in with us.

We don't know the terrible things that are coming our way," she said as she looked down at the cut crystal, her eyes teary. "We just see the shiny surface, our own beautiful selves reflected in it. Not the monster lurking beneath.

Sometimes you listen with your ears; sometimes it's like your whole body becomes this antenna and you pick up on everything.

Lisa smiled. 'You know how sometimes, you catch the faintest hint of movement in the corner of your eye, then you blink and it's gone? That's them.

What people don't understand, they destroy.

Hope, ye miserable. Ye happy, take heed.

Epistemology is still a central issue in philosophy, and we moderns are particularly vexed with the question of how we can come to know anything outside what we already know, that is, how we can climb out of our own culture's basic assumptions, and how we can hope to see beyond our brains' basic formation.

All I know is what I wonder: Which of my feelings are real? Which of the mes is me? There is only one me I've ever really liked, and he was good and awake as long as he could be.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place.

You might expect me to say "life," having just woken up and all, but it's only when I'm awake that I think about dying.

Labels like "bipolar" say This is why you are the way you are. This is who you are. They explain people away as illnesses.

When we're in the act of wandering, we need to be present, not watching it through a lens.

This time will be different. This time, I will stay awake.

If you're not careful, you're going to run into someone angrier than you.

We never know how long we have. We're never guaranteed tomorrow. I could die right now, right here.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place. If we stopped to remember that there's such a thing as a Purina Tower and a view like this, we'd all be happier.

Along those lines, accept any and all thoughts (don't be afraid of them no matter what they are).

It's only when I'm awake that I think about dying.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place. If we stopped to remember that there's such a thing as a Purina Tower and a view like this, we'd all be happier.