Quotes About Awareness

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage

Not trusting your sixth sense, will always -and I mean always- come back to haunt you. Have the courage to stand alone and trust your vibes.

Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.

Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.

Much better to be crazy provided you know what/where sane is.

Meditating takes on a different quality when someone taps you on the shoulder and says, "Dad, why are you sleeping like that?"

My dad would always say, "When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?"

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

My dad taught me not to overplay, to think about my parts when I play, even in a live situation.

Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

I wrapped a towel around me and I opened the door, and then I splish, splash, I jumped back in the bath. Well, how was I to know there was a party going on?

I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.

Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight.

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.