Awareness Quotes

"I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness."

"Nobody talks about cancer until they have to, and then, it's really all you can talk about."

“I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.”

"I'm hoping to raise a little consciousness and shine some light on the idea of responsibility."

“There are lots of eating disorders out there. It's not just anorexia.”

“I do think that there is still this massive stigma around men vocalising that they're suffering from an eating disorder.”

"The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

Thornton Wilder

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have."

Eckhart Tolle

"Travel is like love, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed."

Pico Iyer

"A traveler without observation is a bird without wings."

Saadi Shirazi

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."

George Orwell

"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence."

J. Krishnamurti

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."

Cynthia Ozick

"Gratitude is not a passive response to something we have been given; gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us."

David Whyte

"Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God."

Thomas Merton

"There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened."

Charles Baudelaire

"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear."

John Cage

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

"We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O wretched mortals, open your eyes!”

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake."

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe