Quotes About Awareness

To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.

The sun beams are always there. The trick is in seeing them.

Whether a deity is actually listening or not, there is value in formally announcing your needs, desires, worries, sins, and goals in a focused, prayerful attitude. Only when you are aware can you take action.

Paradoxically, the more we try to change ourselves, the more we prevent change from occurring. On the other hand, the more we allow ourselves to fully experience who we are, the greater the possibility of change.

It may come as a surprise that living life in a full and expanded way is one of the most difficult challenges we face as human beings.

Der Preis der Freiheit ist ewige Achtsamkeit.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.

Truman was so self-absorbed that it took him a long while to realize Marella had taken him out of her life.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free," Wharton wrote in her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Age of Innocence.

While Dees was growing up, he had seen that black lives didn't matter, and until they did, there could be no true justice.

Driving home later that night, Dees lamented that young black people born after the end of the civil rights era knew almost nothing about those who had died so they could live freer lives. And those of the white race knew even less about one of the most important social

Driving home later that night, Dees lamented that young black people born after the end of the civil rights era knew almost nothing about those who had died so they could live freer lives. And those of the white race knew even less about one of the most important social and political movements in American history.

we are in the position of a person who knows the ending of a book and who for amusement, is reading the early chapters. We enjoy them once again; but we are hardly thrilled and excited by them anymore, we know what happened

A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

They can have their little ceremony. We know the truth.

Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.