Quotes About Awareness

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

The causes of mistakes are "I didn't know"; "I didn't think"; and "I didn't care."

You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass.

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.

And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them, the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.

While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.