Quotes About Awareness

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good.

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

But did thee feel the earth move?

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

There is no reason why because it is dark you should look at things differently from when it is light.

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling.

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

Remember, everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong." - "You think so?" - "I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then

But are there not many fascists in your country? There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes.

Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

So if your life trades seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.