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Quotes About Awareness

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
~ George Sand
Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.
~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
We are all happy, if we only knew it.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.
~ Mark Twain
The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use.
~ Ella Baker
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
~ Maxim Gorky
Everyone speaks of it, few know it.
~ Mme. Jeanne P. Roland
Haste is of the Devil.
~ Koran
None so deaf as those that will not hear.
~ Matthew Henry
Little pitchers have wide ears.
~ George Herbert
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
~ Bible
You don't have to sit on top of a mountain to discover what's right for you. You always know in your heart what you need to do.
~ Liz Dolan
What the heart knows today, the head will understand tomorrow.
~ James Stephens
The heart knoweth his own bitterness.
~ Bible
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
~ Bible
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
~ Amelia Barr
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
~ Mary Pettibone Poole
Reform is born of need, not pity.
~ Rebecca Harding Davis
The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.
~ Adrienne Rich
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
~ Grace Paley
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
~ William Hazlitt
It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
~ Ivy ComptonBurnett
I never realized that there was history, close at hand, beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.
~ Stephen Leacock