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Quotes About Awareness

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.
~ Bruno Bettelheim
Hope of consciousness is strength. Hope of feelings is slavery. Hope of body is disease.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
~ Eddie Vedder
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
~ William Blake
Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
~ Horace
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
~ Diane Ravitch
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
~ John Lennon
As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
~ David Chalmers
Musically, I just think in terms of what's next. There's a lot of things I've always dreamed of doing, and I hope I get to them before I get too deaf.
~ Kevin Shields
I can't help you. Not really. I can only show up with a bright heart and hope that I get you at the right micro-moment with the perfect dose of light that helps you see what you already know.
~ Danielle LaPorte
The radio ad "Hi, I'm Jeff Healey from the Jeff Healey Band. Don't drink and drive. I don't". Well, I hope you don't drive sober either Mr. Healey. You're blind for God's sake!
~ George Carlin
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.
~ Patrick Henry
We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
~ Pema Chodron
Hope clouds observation.
~ Frank Herbert
When I see my own people going through the tough times, it's a wake-up call. I hope my influence can impact someone else's decision to get out here and vote.
~ Bow Wow
When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.
~ Andy Andrews
I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.
~ Jim Carrey
I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.
~ Christopher Hitchens
No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
~ Toni Morrison
The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.
~ Viggo Mortensen
My balance is really bad. I just hope my clumsiness doesn't show through.
~ Kim Kardashian
We live on the leash of our senses.
~ Diane Ackerman
I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.
~ Dave Matthews