Quotes About Awareness

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

Men are the invisible victims of America's violence.

Chiun had often warned him against thinking too much, lest his greater senses be dulled to the subtleties of the moment.

When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. I

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

you might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

To those that are not accustomed to it the inner beauty appears as ugliness because humanity in general inclines to the outer and knows nothing of the inner.

I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

The most important rule of scuba diving is... If you don't feel right, don't go down

Routine and predictable days are the breeding grounds for complacency.

Life is life," Meegosh shouted over the grumbling crowd. "Life is precious.

Sometimes I wonder whether I have felt everything I'm ever going to feel

I hoped being aware and appreciative would never leave me. I guessed that feeling that way in the moment was appreciation enough.

the hardest lies to live with are the ones we tell ourselves. And when we actually start to believe them... well, at that point, there's no hope.

Wisdom teaches you the lesson before you make the mistake. On the other hand, consequences demand that you make the mistake first. Only then will it teach you the lesson. Wisdom puts up the fence at the top of the cliff; Consequences visits you in the hospital when you're in traction . . . after they've scraped you up from the cliff's bottom.

It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy. . . . It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love." HENRI NOUWEN

The question is never ''Does God speak?'' but rather ''Am I listening?'' To best hear what God has to say to you, you must still your heart. Set aside your pressing demands. Turn off all your electronic distractions. Rarely does God shout to make himself heard!

But there's also another reason I like to meet for devotions in public places. Think of how many people pass by us as they wait in line for their morning coffee. Most will definitely notice five or six people with their Bibles open, writing in journals. Our favorite meeting place is busy; approximately a hundred people will saunter by us in an hour.

The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.