Quotes about Awareness
Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
— Margaret Atwood
Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art.
— Margaret Atwood
You must observe the risings of the Sun and the changings of the Moon, because to everything there is a season.
— Margaret Atwood
Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
— Margaret Atwood
We have learned to see the world in gasps.
— Margaret Atwood
Though it's hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She's too immersed in the present:
— Margaret Atwood
She looks at you as if she really sees you." So many people had looked past me. "I think I'd like that," I said. "No," said Becka. "That's why she's so scary.
— Margaret Atwood
In this world you have to take your bits and ends of kindness where you can find them, as they do not grow on trees.
— Margaret Atwood
The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.
— Ezra Taft Benson
You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.
— David Jeremiah