Quotes About Awareness

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.

When you show people on the big screen that could be our next-door neighbour or our cousin, it does have an impact on our lives.

We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. Nobody has ever seen a thought. Nobody has ever seen a feeling. And yet thoughts and feelings are where we live our lives most immediately, and science cannot connect with that.

History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes we're not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.

Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.

For those of you that don't know, the reason I named my album 'Free TC' is because my lil' brother is named TC. He's locked up for something that he didn't do, and what I'm trying to do is just raise awareness around the whole mass incarceration thing going on in our country, especially with our people.

Since sixth grade, I've been learning that the climate is deteriorating and the planet is dying, and it is up to us to keep our planet safe.

I think the point of our country, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point.

I am very concerned about our planet and am about respecting all living things.

A cancer diagnosis is a wakeup call that our time is limited.

You can't really ignore what's going on in this planet, in our world, and the way it's all falling apart.

Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.

You know mental illness is one of the biggest problems in our world.

I truly believe the importance of shining the light on the dark corners of our world.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.