Quotes About Awareness

It's a must for us to get higher education since athletes seem to be contended with being good in training and in their events, happy where they are. But I try to change that mindset, let them be aware of other things and grow as a person.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

I like to think I'm the canary down the mine for people.

We'd all like to increase pleasure and minimize pain, but the truth is, suffering, even collective suffering that we're going through, is often the earmark that some real change is happening.

I often think about my dad. He couldn't name you half the government ministers but it doesn't mean that he hasn't got an opinion.

Growing up, I played hockey because I loved playing it. I didn't view myself in minor hockey as a Black hockey player, but I was also aware that I was.

People don't realize how black people, minorities, women as well, all their lives, they have had to make the effort to understand everybody else. All my life, I've known American culture very well. I probably know American literature more than the average American.

A lot of times, when you don't have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don't think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time.

I have not seen 'Legally Blonde.' I must be in the small, ever-dwindling minority on that one.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

I think my parents felt us being a minority a little bit more than I did, and they tried to shelter me from that so I didn't feel it at all.

Minority ethnic issues need to be mainstream issues.

I didn't need a harassment scandal to break out in Hollywood or misogynistic people in government to know they exist. Anybody who's a woman, a minority, or a thinking, perceiving male can see that it exists.

Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.

We have to join hands and fight against female infanticide, when life is snuffed out the minute people find out it is a girl.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

I've been trying to really live in the moment because I will never get this part of it back. As soon as the movie comes out, everyone will turn it into what they believe it is, so I've really been trying to appreciate every minute of now. Because I know what's coming.

As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.

The Five Mindfulness Trainings are needed because we're not fully enlightened yet. We don't need to practice the five trainings perfectly. If we know we're making steps in the right direction, that's good enough.

I have arrived, I am home," can make you very happy.

Suffering has causes which can be illuminated in order to be removed

Elements like these are within us and all around us. In each second of our lives we can enjoy them. If we do so, seeds of peace, joy, and happiness will be planted in us, and they will become strong. The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now.

When you drink your tea, just drink your tea. Enjoy drinking your tea. Please don't drink your suffering, your despair, your projects.