Quotes About Awareness

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true.

Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Both hands... Now use both hands. Oh no, don't close your eyes.

I'm so glad you're here. . .it helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

I came to love, I came into my own.

Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

Love is when you look into someone's eyes, and suddenly, you go all the way inside, to their soul... and you both know, instantly.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Love is not what we become but who we already are

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.