Quotes About Awareness

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Tomorrow, a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

a man only knows what he's experienced

I know too well how slowly we edge along sideways to every thing good & brilliant in our lives & how casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

People are to be taken in very small doses. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

Never miss an opportunity of noticing anything of beauty ...

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also. We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Foolish people ask you, when you speak what they do not wish to hear, How do you know it is the truth, and not an error of your own? We know the truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

This time, like all times, is a very good time - if we but know what to do with it

Every thing looks permanent until its secret is known.

There may be two or three or four steps, according to the genius of each, but for every seeing soul there are two absorbing facts, --I and the abyss.

You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!