Quotes About Awareness

Until I read about it nearly twenty years later, in a book about instrument flying, I didn't realize that I suffered throughout our flight from something called copilot vertigo. The phenomenon is especially severe in tandem-seat designs like Cubs, where visibility over the pilot in front is limited.

I see more of what is going on around me because I am not concerned with finding a parking place.

I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?

Where ever I go, there I am. Drunk.

Education is not just about acquiring knowledge and skills but about being initiated into a certain sensibility.

every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity.

I move throughout the world...guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities.

I have learned that silence is a way of hearing the voices within and of exploring unexpressed and nascent thoughts and feelings.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.

Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.

If you knew what I knew, seen what I've seen, you wouldn't be so quick to pull the plow.

Nobody likes being exploited, unless they're unaware of it, and many aren't aware of it because they believe that's how life is and you can't change it.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

Beware of people that envy you.

I have heard men snore till I was really afraid they would choke, but as for acknowledging that they had been asleep—never!

Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.

Maybe ignorance is bliss, because you can work out things about people and then wish you hadn't.

you cannot conquer fear until you have learned what it is you're afraid of." Then she added, "I had passed thirty-five before I realized that one can no more neglect chronic unhappiness than one can neglect an infected tooth. If misery, like a tooth, is left too long to fester the infection spreads and deepens.

Jake," Mum snapped, "when people are firing at us, you don't have to tell me that they're firing at us.