Awareness Quotes

If you don't like the solution, change the problem.

~ Criss Jami

An aware heart is a grateful heart.

~ Toni Sorenson

You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

~ Pat Conroy

Each moment of gratitude awareness reveals the total beauty which surrounds you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Even discomfort or pain delivers awareness of life, and an opportunity for gratitude.

~ Bryant Mcgill

This is a bad story.”“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.”“No, you should,” I say.“But—”“I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

~ Emma Donoghue

To be conscientious. You must first be conscious.

~ Akiroq Brost

Your perception is your habitual perspective. The way you consciously choose to see life on a regular basis. The moment that you are aware of your perspective and detach to see things from a different point of view (Even SLIGHTLY) is the moment that your entire complexity from within you changes.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Change your awareness and your perspective changes.

~ Andrea Goeglein

Every choice in life sets us on a different path and carries its own set of “what ifs” and consequences that we could worry about, but what’s the use? Rather than plaguing our thoughts with the unknown, we should focus on and accept only what we do know – and all we know is the path we’re currently on.

~ A.j. Darkholme

I seek to sensitize and clarify the essential elements of my soul. I will leave striving for the flags of fame and fortune behind and go where the soul beckons without fearing the decisive outcome. I will travel in a world without boundaries and embrace danger and awe. I will stand as a witness to comedy, beauty, and tragedy and apply the principles of artistic and ascetic forms of awareness to overcome the inherent frustration of enduring a fundamentally painful human existence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

~ Mark Nepo

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

~ Betty Smith

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

~ Maya Angelou

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

~ Emilie Autumn

Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.

~ Lemony Snicket

Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?

~ Osho

There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.

~ Diana Gabaldon

The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE

~ Deepak Chopra

Each time a man looks into your eyes, he is only searching to find himself; for he knows already, that he is part of you

~ Jeremy Aldana

You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

~ Scott Westerfeld

It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.

~ Joan Marques

Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one.

~ Daniel M. Gilbert

Though you recite much scripture, If you are unaware and do not act accordingYou are like a cowherd counting others' cattle, Not a sharer in the wanderer's life.

~ Anonymous

Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

~ Eric Berne

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

~ Anthony De Mello

The aware do not die, The unaware are as though dead already.

~ Anonymous

Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always.

~ Willa Cather

Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is in, complex it out - forever.

~ Joan Marques

Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant.

~ Lorii Myers

One never sleepwalks through grizzlyland, dreaming of other places to be.

~ William Stolzenburg

True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.

~ Kathleen Norris

There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.

~ Gay Hendricks

Instinct's aware of reflex when mind ain't yet.

~ Toba Beta

While performing the great majority of the actions in their life, people are totally unaware. We tend to go through our daily activities mechanically. We talk without real purpose. We do things without even knowing that we do them. We are not really present to what we are doing. Even if we practise being aware, entire portions of our days can elapse before we retrieve our thread of awareness. In short, we are not living our life, we are sleeping it.

~ Samuel Sagan

It's all in the reflexes.

~ Jack Burton (Kurt Russell)

We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.

~ Sebastian Faulks

All desires originate to seek betterment unconsciously. In awareness, the same desires dissolve into realization.

~ Gian Kumar

Each one's no longer consciousOf the high wall, or the rest:Since the one enduring fortress,Is the soldier's iron breast.If you’d live unconquered,Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:Every wife an Amazon bred,And every child a hero.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe