Quotes about Awareness

But a girl always knows.

A window in Merton's mind let in that strange light of surprise in which we see for the first time things we have known all along.

Therefore, we do not become conscious of the three greatest blessings of life as such, namely health, youth, and freedom, as long as we possess them, but only after we have lost them; for they too are negations.

The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.

We sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought.

The younger we are, the more each individual object represents for us the whole class to which it belongs.

We should rather consider the events, as they happen, with the same eye as we consider the printed word which we read, knowing full well that it was there before we read it.

There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others / not heard for the same reason.

There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not need to change these people, only recognize who they are.

To acknowledge privilege is the first step in making it available for wider use.

But as Adrienne Rich pointed out in a recent talk, white feminists have educated themselves about such an enormous amount over the past ten years, how come you haven't also educated yourselves about Black women and the differences between us — white and Black — when it is key to our survival as a movement?

But this is all about how very difficult it is at times for people to see who or what they are looking at, particularly when they don't want to.