Quotes About Awareness

I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

I think maybe I was numb to it last year.. but you know I feel it now more than ever

Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.

My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.

You factor in racism as a reality and you keep moving.

Monsieur Man-in-a-hurry, you can find me without running—ME, you understand?

passion can blind even those who are ordinarily the most clear-headed.

Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.

Edmond did not lose a word, but comprehended very little of what was said.

Before we are alarmed, we see correctly; when we are alarmed, we see double; and when we have been alarmed, we see nothing but trouble.

Admire yourself and others will admire you', a hundred times more useful in our days than the Greek one: 'Know thyself', which has now been replaced by the less demanding and more profitable art of knowing others.

There is only one serious matter to be considered in life, and that is death.

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers for ever.

Când închid ochii, rev?d tot ce am v?zut. Exist? dou? feluri de priviri: privirea trupului È™i privirea sufletului. Privirea trupului poate uita uneori, dar cea a sufletului îÈ™i aminteÈ™te totdeauna.

Per quanto l'uomo sia indurito nel pericolo, e ben prevenuto contro di esso, capisce sempre dal fremito del cuore e dal brivido della carne l'enorme differenza che esiste tra il sogno e la realtà, fra il progetto e l'esecuzione.

Ceea ce lipseÈ™te judec??ilor mele de ast?zi e aprecierea exact? a trecutului, deoarece îl rev?d la cap?tul cel?lalt al orizontului. Pe m?sur? ce înaint?m, trecutul se È™terge în urma noastr? ca un peisaj prin care trecem. Mi se întâmpl? ceea ce se întâmpl? oamenilor care s-au r?nit în vis: îÈ™i privesc È™i îÈ™i simt rana, dar nu-È™i aduc aminte c? au primit-o.

You don't write down every evening what has happened during the day: you don't keep a diary?' 'No. Alas, my life is spent in frivolous trifles, which I even forget myself.

Excitement, like enthusiasm, sometimes renders us unconscious to the things of earth.

Ah! It is precisely in this that we reveal our base material origins. Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or, even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know that crimes have been committed.

the walls have ears, but they don't have tongues.

Nothing passes the time, or shortens the path, like a thought which engrosses all the faculties of an individual's organization. Our external existence is a sleep, of which this thought is the dream; and while we are subjected to its influence, time has no longer any measure, nor is there any distance in space. We leave one place and arrive at another, and are conscious of nothing between.

Dantès in his cell heard the noise of preparation,—sounds that at the depth where he lay would have been inaudible to any but the ear of a prisoner, who could hear the splash of the drop of water that every hour fell from the roof of his dungeon. He guessed something uncommon was passing among the living; but he had so long ceased to have any intercourse with the world, that he looked upon himself as dead.

In all well-organized brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning.