Quotes About Awareness

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself."

Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming.

Sometimes we look so intently toward the pinnacle that we stumble over the steps leading to it. Development begins just where you are.

What you theoretically know, vividly realize.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.

He is more within us than we are ourselves.

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time, which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.

The very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.

I think the inner person is the most important. ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize Him.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time.

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence, is... just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool-shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple-teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep-wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise-follow him.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.