Quotes About Awareness

We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it.

I think any time you hear that you're about to paralyze yourself, or even worse, it's just scary because you start to realize how precious life is.

You're immortal, aren't you, until you get a little peek over the precipice. The thought of death...You're not supposed to start pondering it until you're old. And there's nothing like being told you've got a life-threatening disease to concentrate your mind on that.

I was well aware of my limitations as a football player and knew that I needed every edge I could possibly get in order to compete. A big part of that was to be as precise as I could and make as few mistakes as possible because I figured that was the only way I could survive.

I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

I prefer to be able to identify what I'm eating. I have to know.

My preference for female company is based for the most part on the fact that women are more self-aware than men, in my experience.

The LGBTQ community refers to people's sexual preferences - lesbians like women, gay people like men - and children shouldn't be walking advertisements for sexuality when they are not old enough to make their own decisions.

I'll admit I'm still getting used to using preferred pronouns here and there. Actually changing the way that you address people can be a challenge. It's not from a place of not understanding, but conditioning.

Every second minute, a woman or a girl dies in the world due to pregnancy.

We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

I can't think of any mother who would think twice about discussing the changes that happen to their body during pregnancy. But on top of this, we need to reach a point where they're comfortable talking about what might happen to their mind.

One in five women experience a mental health condition during pregnancy, or in the year after giving birth. It can affect any woman. And it can be devastating.

I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals.

No parent wants their child to get an infection or get pregnant before they're ready.

I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.