Quotes About Awareness

Gratitude was a big one. He hadn't realized how much he took people for granted in his life until they showed up to help him without even being asked. It was humbling as hell.

I almost always wear a helmet." "Brian!" She slapped the table. "Do you have any idea what the fatality rate is for motorcycle riders? And that's with proper headgear. I should bring you to the ME's office sometime. If you saw what I saw—" "I'm sure it's bad." She

Our inability to see things that are right before our eyes, until they are pointed out to us, would be amusing if it were not at times so serious. We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being told and shown and taught, instead of using our own eyes and brains and inventive faculties, which are likely to be just as good as any other person's.

Almanzo couldn't understand how Father knew that he wasn't looking at the preacher, if Father was looking at the preacher himself. But Father always did know.

She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cosy house, and Pa and Ma and the fire-light and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care: to whom you speak, of whom you speak, and how and when and where. Your loving mother, C. L. Ingalls.

I have learned that if the mind is allowed to dwell on a circumstance more and more details will present themselves and the memory becomes much more distinct.

The floorboards creaked. She felt him come close behind her, a warmth, a presence that made her stiffen with awareness. You have remarkable character, Princess. Your eyebrows are lovely. Your chin is adorable and your eyes are gorgeous. Your figure is... utterly splendid. Just about too splendid, if I may be forgiven for saying so. It's been damned hard to remember I'm a gentleman.

People look, they don't see.

But wasn't that love? Seeing what no one else could?

There will be boys who will tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you.

It has often been said that our environmental crisis is a crisis of perception. We do not readily see the patterns that would reveal our dependence on the natural world, nor are we commonly aware of the systems within which we are deeply embedded. Our attention, entrained on objects and focused on flat screens, is far removed from the dynamic and animated nonhuman world. We are as good as blind to the wonder at our feet or the daily spectacle of an ever-changing sky.

you can choose how to spend your 168 hours, and you have more time than you think.

Being off the clock implies time freedom, yet time freedom stems from time discipline. You must know where the time goes in order to transcend the ceaseless ticking.

Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.

Ignorance of the outcome doesn't exempt you from the consequences.

All you really have...is now.

What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them have reformed, but what about the ones who haven't? Doesn't anyone realize that one 'touch', one 'time' will destroy a child's life ten times faster than a pack-a-day habit?

I know why your gift was deaf to me ~ Dillon

Joy is everywhere. You just have to recognize it.

You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.

Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.

Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.

Methinks we have a clue. Be still, my heart.