Quotes About Awareness

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

I have very bad posture.

I never went out of my way to say anything about my drug use. I tried to hide it as long as I could. The main reason was that I didn't want some 15-year-old kid who likes our band to think it's cool to do heroin, you know? I think people who glamorise drugs are fucking assholes and, if there's a hell, they'll go there.

Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

Ich sah die beiden Heringe an, die beiden Heringe sahen mich an, wir schwiegen alle drei.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

Before seeing, before feeling, and before thinking: What is the mind?

There's a lot of love around you, but if you don't see it, it's not there.

don't rush though: your eyes need time to taste. your soul needs room to bloom.

Once you carry your own water you will know the value of every drop.

Once, after lecturing before the Malaysia Art Council, I was asked by an English curator, during the question period, why all Chinese paintings look alike. I replied that the reason was the same why Orientals, when first coming to the West, are unable to differentiate between the various European nationalities - lack of exposure and not being familiar enough with the subject to know where and how to look for the variations and telling characteristics.

Las personas que encuentran dentro de sí mismas la facultad de enamorarse hacen un descubrimiento más importante que los que han ganado el Premio Nobel. Y si no se da cuenta, o si no quiere darse cuenta, el ser humanoes mejor que se extinga. Que haya una colisión con un planeta, o algo por el estilo, y que desaparezca pronto...

Te da una sensación muy rara eso de pensar que tu vida tiene un límite. Ya sé que es algo natural, pero nosotros vivimos sin pensar que son naturales las cosas que lo son.

I know no such thing.

We may be the intelligent species, but we are certainly not the smartest!