Quotes About Awareness

To wage war on depression is to fight against oneself, and it is important to know that in advance of the battles.

Mental illness is real illness

Without self-discovery," Hahn wrote, extending an idea of Nietzsche's, "a person may still have self-confidence, but it is a self-confidence built on ignorance and it melts in the face of heavy burdens.

Depression claims more years than war, cancer, and AIDS put together. Other illnesses, from alcoholism to heart disease, mask depression when it causes them; if one takes that into consideration, depression may be the biggest killer on earth. Treatments

Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality.

I love the sense of vast transformation that hangs on us at this new millennium, the feeling that we are at the brink of knowing more than people have ever known before.

I was walking down the street today," she said, "and I thought, I am probably dying. And then I thought, should we have cherries or pears at lunch? And the two things felt too much the same.

I understood that going where I would actually be foreign might distract people from the more intimate nature of my defining otherness.

are based on the principle that naming something is a good way to subdue it, and that knowing the source of a problem is useful in solving that problem.

At least half of the children available for adoption in the United States have disabilities of some kind.

People with disabilities make up the largest minority in America; they constitute 15 percent of the population though only 15 percent of those were born with their disability and about a third are over sixty-five…

There is a Russian expression: if you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead.

It is this acute awareness of transience and limitation that constitutes mild depression.

In the United States, 150,000 people with schizophrenia are homeless; one in five people with schizophrenia is homeless in any given year.

We distract ourselves with details. It's a way of coping.

Keep your eye on the ridgeline, never lose sight of winter's hem. This is how you'll like to remember yourself: standing slightly apart and moving away, knowing in that last tawny rush of the leaves: what goes out there, it never comes back.

News you can't read calmly, don't read at all!

He heard a match being struck, the hiss of a gas flame. Then the clanging of a pot, the woman's breathing, the rustle water filling a vessel. He smelled bread. He closed his eyes. I love this world, he thought, and his eyes filled with tears.

He heard a match being struck, the hiss of a gas flame. Then the clanging of a pot, the woman's breathing, the rustle of water filling a vessel. He smelled bread. He closed his eyes. I love this world, he thought, and his eyes filled with tears.

How many times have I been put at the front of the line without even knowing there was a line? How many times have I walked through a door that opened, invisibly and silently, for me, but slammed shut for others? How many lines have I cut in a life of privilege?

At its worst, privilege is blindness, allowing us to blithely go on in our god playing, not even aware of the insults to image bearers that happen under our noses every day.

The powerful have a hard time seeing their own power and its effects. We do not see when our exercise of power is cutting off life and possibility for others; we do not see the ways others are resisting or undermining our own power.

The best investors don't get persuaded by stock blips or charts. It's about staying ahead of the curve—anticipating changes in sentiment. You've got to anticipate what newspaper headlines will say next.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.