Quotes About Awareness

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

They thought, for example, that I really ought to know the name Intel because "it's written on every computer." I, of course, had never noticed.

Everything in the universe has life and you must always try to sty in contact with that life. It understands your language and the world will begin to take on a different meaning for you.

Don't run, child! You'll never escape the two most important presences in the life of any human being: God and death. God accompanies your every step and will be annoyed because he can see that you're not paying attention to the miracle of life. Or indeed death. You just ran past a corpse and didn't even notice.

Are the latter aware of their limitations, and do they know that life is short and wonder what point there is in going on?

And keep in mind that if you throw the KB into anything harder than sand you could break the handle; cast iron is hard but brittle.

7. BUILD UP THE TRAINING LOAD GRADUALLY USING COMMON SENSE, AND LISTEN TO YOUR BODY.

Listen to your hands. If your skin begins to pull, tingle or give indications of a blister or tear, listen to it and stop. Halting a set early to save your hands is far preferable to ignoring the warning and allowing a tear to occur which can derail your training.

There can be no meaningful change if we choose to look down at the arena of anguish from thirty thousand feet.

You know I love Brother Buddha, but until he reincarnates as a black man in America, I think we better go with what we know." Joyce

Every mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

People everywhere do not concern themselves much beyond the common round of everyday, and this is the chief problem for a democratic government, whose success depends upon an informed and responsible citizenry.

It seemed so strange, so endless, this turning of some hidden wheel, this passing on of link caught onto link in some never ending chain that she was dazed with thinking of it even dimly, since she was not one to think into the meanings of what passed before her, but only taking all that came for what it was.

What is the conscience? It is the most highly developed part of the human being, the core of the spirit, the most sensitive, the most tender.

If you would only stop thinking, you would be much happier.

What this means for parents is that you never know what your child's "sex education" class may entail. Only fourteen states require that sex ed be medically accurate.

Maybe it was just one of those days when you hear an old question a new way, that quite suddenly shifts your perspective.

The idea that there could be one solution to breast cancer- screening, early detection, some universal cure- is certainly appealing. All of us, those who fear the disease, those who live with it, our friends and families, the corporations who swath themselves in pink, wish it were true. Wearing a bracelet, sporting a ribbon, running a race, or buying a pink blender expresses our hopes and that feels good - even virtuous. But making a difference is more complicated than that.

Children as young as twelve to eighteen months can recognize brands, it went on, and are "strongly influenced" by advertising and marketing. Yikes!

What gets to you is the everyday ignorance

We are learning to support girls as they 'lean in' educationally and professionally, yet in this most personal of realms, we allow them to topple. It's almost as if parents believe that if they don't tell their daughters that sex should feel good, they won't find out. And perhaps that's correct, they don't. Not easily anyway. But the outcome is hardly what adults could've hoped.

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)