Attention Quote by Marcel Proust

“New places and new roles forced me into acute awareness of how others were responding to me. When a human is being himself, flowing…

— Luke Rhinehart

“The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think - and to feel - such melancholy things.”

— Marcel Proust

“A single act of carelessness leads to the eternal loss of beauty”

— Forbidden City Sign Writer

“In the course of aesthetic experience, the perceiver may be overwhelmed by this 'mere object', overcome with emotion, altered to the very roots of…

— Wendy Steiner

Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes…

— John O'Donohue

The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made…

— May Sarton

Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I…

— Werner Herzog

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I…

— Anonymous

If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What…

— David Hume

“People, walking on the catwalk of indifference and evaporating in a bubble of apathy, may be unconscious of the decay of their emotions and…

— Erik Pevernagie

The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel