Quotes About Awareness

If you don't think a small act can make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room.

I'm not goal-oriented so much as I'm constantly aware of what I'm passionate about, and I'm constantly updating the list. I envision many possible futures for myself where I could be happy, so I just try to keep my passions alive.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

I'm convinced that probably everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. It's just one more reason to always try to be kind.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

Most people don't know what's happening around them because they're just speeding through life. And before they know it, they're just old. So I just try to slow it down.

We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.

I think, at the end of the day, acting and activism are both about empathy. You're trying to get people to see other people as real and human. And to care.

I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

Every couple needs glue to stay together. Like all marriages, I suspect, if you're busy you don't see it coming until you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It's a bit like going broke. It happens slowly and then very quickly.

My feeling of security really went down the tubes when I couldn't hear anymore. When it got dark, I'd get very afraid because I can't hear people coming up behind me.

Whenever you catch a ball, just see it all the way into the tuck.