Awareness
Never make an intimate friend of anyone who is not a friend of God.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Awareness, Famous, Friends, God, Intimates, Meaningful, Thoughts
Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
Author: J. C. RyleTopics: Awareness, Books, Famous, First, Heeding, Read
I don’t recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories
Author: A. E. vanTopics: Awareness, Away, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Rebirth, Recall, Recalling, Receive, Self appointed, Self Belief, Self Care, Self prepared, Self Respect
The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers
Stream from the hawthorn on the wind away,
The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.
Pass me the can, lad; there’s an end of May.
Topics: Aware, Awareness, Away, Flow, Flower girl, Flowers, Life-changing event, Life-Stream, Life–risk, Lifelong, Pass
Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Awareness, Convictions, People, Possibility
Was this how it worked, then, successful social integration? Was it really that simple? Wear some lipstick, go to the hairdressers and alternate the clothes you wear?
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Awareness, Famous, Social, Successful
People don’t like these facts, but I can’t help that. If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn’t spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.
Author: Gail HoneymanTopics: Awareness, Famous, Fine, Lonliness, People, Pleasant, Social
Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don’t necessarily see the effect of their pollution or pesticides on others. But Texans have an appreciation for water problems and are very aware of the droughts.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Appreciation, Awareness, Droughts, Famous, People, Pesticides, Pollution, Problem, Property, Water
I only became aware that my eyes had filled with tears when I noticed some commotion in the treetops, far off outside the perimeter wall. I blinked and looked again. There were monkeys out there fighting, screaming and pelting one another with rotten fruit.
Author: Kage BakerTopics: Awareness, Commotion, Eyes, Famous, Fighting, Fruits, Monkey, Rotten, Screaming, Tears
Instructing is instinctual craftsmanship, aware of potential, desiring of acknowledgment, a delaying, consistent procedure.
Author: A. Bartlett GiamattiTopics: Acceptance, Aware, Awareness, Away, Consistent, Consistent action, Consistent effort, Desirability, Desire, Educating, Education system, Educational Progress, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Potential
Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being’s awareness of itself in us
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Awareness, Experiences, Famous, Insight, Itself, Life, Meaningful, Zen
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and “being present” in full awareness.
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Awareness, Famous, Found, Life, Meaning, Meaningful, Openness, Present
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Acceptance, Awareness, Compassion, Famous, Inspirational, Interdependence, Keen, Life, Meaningful, Things
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Acceptance, Adaptation, Awareness, Coping, Disappointment, Emotional, Experience, Famous, Feelings, Growth, Inspirational, Knowledge, Learning, Life, Maturity, Meaningful, Meet, Meetings, Perspective, Positive, Sooner, Timing, Wear
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Awareness, Beneath, Bite, Caution, Discretion, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hook, Judgement, Meaningful, Pleasure, Prudence, Temptations
No people who are ignorant can be truly free
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Awareness, Critical thinking, Education, Empowerment, Famous, Feelings, Free, Ignorant, Independence, Inform, Meaningful, People, Truly, Understanding
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Awareness, Best, Depth, Education, Famous, Feelings, Insight, Knowing, Knowledge, Knows nothing, Learning, Life, Limitation, Little, Meaningful, Perspective, Realization, Understanding
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Acceptance, Awareness, Civilization, Expect, Expectation, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Free, Ignorant, Informed, Knowledge, Meaningful, Nation, Never, Reality, Responsibility, State, Will Be
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Awareness, Body, Dawn, Days, Empowerment, Enlighten, Evil, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Generally, Knowledge, Liberation, Life, Meaningful, Mind, Oppression, People, Spirits, Transformation, Tyranny, Vanish
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Acceptance, Awareness, Beneath, Bite, Caution, Famous, Feelings, Hook, Life, Meaningful, Mindfulness, Pleasure
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Awareness, Democracy, Education, Empowerment, Famous, Information, Inspirational, Involvement, Knowledge, Liberty, Meaningful, People, Positive, Preservation, Public, Reliance, Sure, Whole Mass
Hell is truth seen too late.
Author: Thomas HobbesTopics: Acceptance, Awareness, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hell, Late, Life, Meaningful, Redemption, Reflection, Regret, Seen, Trust, Truth, Understanding
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Alert, Awake, Awareness, Encounter, Evasion, Famous, Feelings, Happy, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Meditation, Mindfulness, Positive, Reality, Restful, Serene
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Available, Awareness, Choice, Expansion, Exploration, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Moment, Option, Positive, Possibilities, Potential, Realize
To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Awareness, Compassion, Connection, Empathy, Famous, Feelings, Healing, Hurt, Life, Love, Meaningful, Not knowing, Person, Understanding, Wounds
We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Alive, Awareness, Difficulty, Diploma, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Good, House, Job, Life, Live, Living, Meaningful, Positive, Preparing, Present moment, Remembering, Sacrifice, Willing, Work credit
When you stop ruminating about what has already happened, when you stop worrying about what might never happen, then you will be in the present moment
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Acceptance, Awareness, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Happened, Inspirational, Let go, Life, Meaningful, Peace, Positive, Present moment, Ruminating, Stop, Worrying
You will have missed the feel, the aroma, the delicacy and beauty of life
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Aroma, Awareness, Beauty, Delicacy, Experiences, Famous, Feel, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Miss, Missed, Presence
Only in the awareness of the present, can your hands feel the pleasant warmth of the cup
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Awareness, Connection, Enjoyment, Experience, Feel, Hand, Perception, Pleasant, Present, Sensation, Sensory, Touch, Warmth
Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Awareness, Clarity, Consciousness, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Illumination, Influence, Insight, Meaningful, Perception, Positive, Sun, Sun Shines, Things, Transformation, Understanding
Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, …awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world. If we get in touch with the suffering of the world, and are moved by that suffering, we may come forward to help the people who are suffering
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Action, Avoid, Awaken, Awareness, Close, Compassion, Empathy, Engagement, Existence, Eyes, Famous, Feelings, Find, Forward, Help, Humanity, Image, Including, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Moved, People, Personal contact, Positive, Reality, Sounds, Suffering, Touch, Visits, World
The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Awareness, Back, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Future, Gone, Impermanence, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mindset, Past, Positive, Presence, Present moment, Reflection, Time, Touch
To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is simply not to allow yourself to get lost in regrets about the past or worries about the future. If you are firmly grounded in the present moment, the past can be an object of inquiry, the object of your mindfulness and concentration. You can attain many insights by looking into the past. But you are still grounded in the present moment
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Attain, Awareness, Concentration, Dwell, Famous, Feelings, Future, Grounded, Idea, Insight, Inspirational, Meaningful, Mindfulness, Never, Object, Past, Plan, Positive, Present moment, Regrets, Responsibly, Simply, Think, Worries
When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth… Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Anxiety, Awareness, Connection, Consciousness, Earth, Famous, Feelings, Feet, Harmony, Inspirational, Kissing, Life, Meaningful, Peace, Positive, Print, Rushing, Serenity, Sorrow, walk
Life is available only in the present moment.
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Acceptance, Available, Awareness, Conscious, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mindfulness, Now, Present moment, Reality
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Awaken, Awareness, Collaboration, Connection, Famous, Feelings, Harmony, Illusion, Life, Meaningful, Mindfulness, Oneness, Positive, Realization, Separateness, Unity, Universality
I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don’t care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn’t be driving a car if you’re over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.
Author: Evel KnievelTopics: Awareness, Away, Behaviour, Beholder, Being, Care, Carefree, Driving, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Older
I want to increase awareness for the importance of life.
Author: HyunaTopics: Awareness, Famous, Increases, Meaningful
Bread, soup – these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
Author: Elie Wiesel
Topics: Almost, Alone, Aware, Awareness, Body, Body-Shape, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Stomach, Times, Times of difficulty
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Author: Elbert HubbardTopics: Awareness, Away, Famous, Feelings, Giving, Keep, Keeping in touch, Life, Loveable, Loved, Lovely, Meaningful
When I win awards, I think of my father.
Topics: Award, Awareness, Father, Fatherhood, Resourceful, Respect, Respect for Authority, Thinking, Thinking mind, Winner, Wins
The body which is matter says not ‘I’. Eternal Awareness rises not nor sets. Betwixt the two, bound by the body, rises the thought of ‘I’. This is the knot of matter and Awareness. This is bondage, jiva, subtle body, ego. This is samsara, this is the mind.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Awareness, Bondage, Bound, Eternal, Famous
You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Another, Awareness, Cultivate, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Awareness, Observe, Truth
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Awareness, Continuous, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
One who possesses Gold should be aware of its precious place in this world.
Author: Christopher Columbus
Topics: Aware, Awareness, Away, Gold, Golden, Lessons, Place, Works, World
Awareness without action is worthless.
Author: Phil McGrawTopics: Awareness, Famous, Meaningful, Worthless
An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Awareness, Famous, Life, Live, Meaningful
Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.
Author: George Washington CarverTopics: Advice, Awareness, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Mother Nature, Observation, Valuable things, Young People
God made the world for the delight of human beings– if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we’ve waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us — you just can’t resist Him. I believe there’s no such thing as luck in life, it’s God’s love, it’s His.
Author: Mother TeresaTopics: Awareness, Being human, Famous, Goodness, Human, Human Being, Love, Notice, Remember, Throughout
There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and kinds of life there may be in this vast and awesome universe.
Author: Carl Sagan
Topics: Awareness, Awesome, Awful, Facing, Factor, Facts, Planet, Planning, Something, Star, Universe
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes
Author: Carl JungTopics: Awake, Awareness, Being awake, Big dreams, Dream, Dreaming, Forward-looking, Inside, Life Experiences, Life Outside
To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Awareness, Famous, Inspirational, Limitations
What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerTopics: Awareness, Inspirational, Motivational, Regrets, Spoken, Suggests, Words
Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
Author: Bruce LeeTopics: Awareness, Darkness, Light, Walking, Will power
Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don’t know why. It’s ugly, everywhere.
Author: Ice CubeTopics: Awareness, Dying, Empathy, Famous, Global Issue, Saddening fact, Senselessness, Tragedy, Tragic reality, Young People
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Author: Norman CousinsTopics: Awareness, Die, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Pain, Tragedy
Gotta be a snake to hang around your snakes.
Author: Lil DurkTopics: Awareness, Famous, Mindfulness
It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it’s important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement
Author: Angela DavisTopics: Acceptance, Awareness, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Important, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Organization
Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others
Author: Amelia EarhartTopics: Acceptance, Awareness, Challenge, Experiences, Failure, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Playfulness, Please, Truthful, Try
Global warming is not only the No.1 environmental challenge we face today but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity. We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Awareness, Challenge, Environment, Global warming, Issues, Planet, Positive Change, Positive Words, Powerful Message, Preserving, Priority, Problems, Protect
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow
Author: AesopTopics: Acceptance, Aware, Awareness, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Leaders, Leading, Leads, Life, Meaningful, Positive
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters
Author: AesopTopics: Acceptance, Avoid, Awareness, Bad, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Good, Good Life, Good Things, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Passion, Passionate, Path, Peace, Water, Wealth
Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Awareness, Ecosystems, Evolution, Famous, Future, Inspirational, Planet, Positive, Preserving, Protection, Species
On whether there are any aspects of fame he dislikes: You kidding? I feel very fortunate. A lot of people would love to be in my position. There are so many people out there who are suffering trillions of times more than I could ever suffer, and would love to be me. I am a lucky little bastard.
Topics: Awareness, Famous, Fortunate, Gratitude, Inspirational, Lucky, SufferingRaising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Awareness, Environmental Issues, Famous, Important, Inspirational, Meaningful, Positive, Raising
The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics
Author: Albert SchweitzerTopics: Acceptance, Awareness, Away, Background, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Lost, Love, Meaningful, Politics, Popular, Together
Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.
Author: Leonardo da VinciTopics: Achievement, Appreciation, Awareness, Famous, Proper Utilization, Time
Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
Author: Leonardo da VinciTopics: Awareness, Famous, Global Perspective, Interconnectedness, Learning, Meaningful, Realization, Understanding
He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.
Author: Leo TolstoyTopics: Ability, Awareness, Believe, Capacity, Evil, Falsehood, Goodness, Meaningful, Truth
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Author: Leo TolstoyTopics: Awareness, Connection, Famous, Happiness, Harmony, Link, Man, Mindfulness, Nature
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.
Author: Leo TolstoyTopics: Assumption, Aware, Awareness, Body, Encumbering, Famous, Paralyze, Remedies
There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.
Author: Abraham LincolnTopics: Admirer, Awareness, Famous, Feelings, Life, Positive
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt
Author: Abraham LincolnTopics: Achieve, Act, Advice, AIM, Awareness, Built, Famous, Feelings, Life
I still feel that as a sport going to places with human rights issues, such as this one, I feel that the sport is duty bound to raise awareness and try to leave a positive impact, and I feel like it needs to do more.
Author: Lewis HamiltonTopics: Awareness, Famous, Hope, Human Right, Important, Inspirational, Issues, Meaningful, Meaningful Impact, Positive, Positive Impact, Sports