Quotes About Awareness

Reading isn't important because it helps to get you a job. It's important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you're given. It is how humans merge.

Sip, don't gulp.

To say how I was feeling would lead to feeling more of what I was feeling.

When it comes to our minds, awareness is very often the solution itself.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment. Live in the breath.

Let's occasionally look up from the spot in which we are because, wherever we happen to be standing, the sky above goes on for ever.

You have to stop flicking ahead and just concentrate on the page you're on

The future isn't real. The future is abstract. The now is all we know. One now after another now. The now is where we must live. There are billions of different versions of an older you. There is one version of the present you. Focus on that.

Are you someone who watches life, or someone who participates?

She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

Yet people still don't think depression really that bad. If they did, they wouldn't say the things they say.

And nor is mental health something we can clear up once and for all, but rather something we always have to attend to, like a garden that needs nurturing, for as long as we live.

The longer you live, the harder it becomes. To grab them. Each little moment as it arrives. To be living in something other than the past or the future. To be actually here.

She carried on talking. And as she did so, I realized there could be no cosmic consequence at all if I stopped listening, and with that realization I switched off the phone.

To believe in the things we feel at that point is wrong, because those feelings would disappear with food or sleep.

Camus also said, 'If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there'?

I think life always provides reasons to not die, if we listen hard enough.

If you're feeling mentally unwell, treat yourself as you would a physical problem

Familiarity could make you a stranger to yourself.

Why depression is hard to understand IT IS INVISIBLE. It is not "feeling a bit sad.

Maybe once you had known fear and love and beauty, you could never unknow them.

The next day I had a hangover. I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

When you have worries about things you don't know about, like the future, it's a very good idea to remind yourself of things you do know.

You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident. So what should we do? Talk. Listen. Encourage talking. Encourage listening. Keep adding to the conversation. Stay on the lookout for those wanting to join in the conversation.