Quotes About Awareness

He watched me breathe. He knew my breath.

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.

No one," Ben noted, "would have known about James Chaney if he had been by himself.

You are always learning. At the end of each day, you know something you didn't know at the beginning. We're all learning on the job. This is true even when the thing you've learned is that you know less than you thought.

When someone's using an ATM, you want to be about six feet back. People get edgy around that ATM. They got their money out, their eyes are darting around. The other place I wanna be six feet away is urinals. ATMs and urinals–whenever someone's taking something valuable out of their pants you want to give them as much room as possible.

I really feel as human beings, we need more training in our basic social skills. Conversational distance: Don't you hate these people that talk into your mouth like you're a clown at a drive-through?

You can be passionate about anything. Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard.

Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. Ya get a sense of it and then you look away.

The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.

It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There's a whole commotion going on inside us.

Not for the first time, as the trip kicks in, I make a note to myself: Don't be an asshole.

Para vivir hay que aprender a mirar la muerte con cierta indiferencia. No hay que dedicar a los muertos demasiados sentimientos ni pensar en ellos en exceso. No lo necesitan. No necesitan nada. No existen. Sólo los vivos existen.

Tylko ludzie o du?ej samo?wiadomo?ci potrafi? rozszyfrowa? i rozumie? innych. St?d pozorny paradoks: introwertycy w sposób bardzo czujny i ch?onny ani?eli typy ekstrawertyków otwarci s? na ludzi i ?wiat.

Life is a state of mind.

It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

Don't forget about the past, don't worry about the future, but love what's here now!

This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

I think so, too. I know I felt that way. For years. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.

But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start.

There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. —Milan Kundera

People who keep journals have life twice.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

he who looks too hard for any particular thing, though he may find it, will certainly miss the most wondrous and strange things he passes, though they stare him in the face.