Quotes About Awareness

Continually remind yourself that you are a mortal being, and someday will die.

Most of us would be seized with fear if our bodies went numb, and would do everything possible to avoid it, yet we take no interest at all in the numbing of our souls.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend its increase.

But the wise man knows that all things are in store for him. Whatever happens, he says: I knew it.

But my nose is running!' What do you have hands for, idiot, if not to wipe it? 'But how is it right that there be running noses in the first place?' Instead of thinking up protests, wouldn't it be easier just to wipe your nose?

Show them where they go wrong and you will find that they'll reform. But unless they see it, they are stuck with nothing better than their usual opinion as their practical guide.

Be confident in everything outside the will, and cautious in everything under the will's control.

the ability to make good use of impressions

Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?

fear comes from what you expect, but grief from that which is present.

Do you realize that you are awake?' 'No, any more than when I dream and have the impression that I am awake.' 'And is the one impression in no way different from the other?' 'No.

It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

It is a measure of the effort we are prepared to expend to guard against deception when accuracy is at a premium.

Denial is the true enemy of freedom. Our denial is more important to us than our safety, happiness or national security. Eric Blair 2018

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

Jeff: I don't need a limousine to know who I am. At least I know I don't know.

Jeff: At least I admit that I don't know. I know that things are fucked up, beyond belief, and I have nothing original to say about it...

In being slower, time is more capacious. The event is only in the moment. By speeding through life with technology, you reduce what any given moment can hold. By slowing down, you expand it.

Demersul suprem al ratiunii este sa afle ca exista o infinitate de lucruri care o depasesc. Si e o ratiune slaba daca nu ajunge pana acolo.

Still, let us not disarm, even in unsatisfactory times. Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. The world will not get better on its own.

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.