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Quotes About Awareness

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts
~ Gautama Buddha
Life presents us with repeated opportunities to face what we fear, what we need to become conscious of, or what we need to master.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.
~ Bill Henson
The only real problem in your life is how you're using your mind.
~ Ken Keyes Jr.
Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.
~ Nhat Hanh
You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.
~ Oscar de la Renta
Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.
~ Alberto Giacometti
I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.
~ Bill Johnson
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?
~ Thornton Wilder
We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.
~ Edith Schaeffer
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
~ Charles Bukowski
You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.
~ Nora Roberts
Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.
~ Melody Beattie
The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
~ Stephen Levine
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
~ Virginia Woolf
Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don't let life slip by unnoticed.
~ Joyce Meyer
I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.
~ Khalil Gibran
Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.
~ Taizan Maezumi
The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.
~ Henepola Gunaratana
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
~ Dorothea Lange
It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.
~ Corita Kent
It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
~ Mitch Albom, For One More Day