Quotes About Awareness

Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.

And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.

I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.

If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.

The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

It is the acme of life to understand life.

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels we can remember the lower levels, but when on the lower we cannot remember the higher.

The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.

I can go to a lot of games, but I'm not a player. I'm kind of an observer. That's why I think I do what I do in life. I just observe. That's what I find fascinating.

My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?