Quotes About Awareness

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

If you have a friend or a family member who's bipolar, or has panic attack disorder, or is depressed, read up on it a little bit so you can get to know where they're coming from.

I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.

I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.

When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.

The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.

And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

I'm the only one in - of my siblings, my mom and my family - that hasn't been affected by Lyme disease. It's been really hard for me because I'm the only one that doesn't really understand it.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

My son has taken up meditation - at least it's better than sitting doing nothing.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

For me, conscious parenting is staying attuned to your child, being really open and in the moment. It means staying as present as possible in your own breath for the betterment of your whole family.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

Racism is a disease of white people

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Our root fantasy is that "I" am real and that it's possible for "me" to be happy.