Awareness Quotes
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I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.
Nicolas Malebranche
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It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
William Glasser
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I will say that I appreciate Hillary Clinton's awareness and passion for women. I think she is overqualified in the sense that she's been in the White House, so she knows the drill. I am hopeful that she will continue to support minorities and create better opportunities.
Nia Long
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One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.
Mena Suvari
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Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
Sara Paretsky
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We are going home (we are Home, already and always). Home on this earth is being all levels of our awareness or consciousness in our own unique fashion.
Charles L. Whitfield
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The situation is very dangerous and sensitive. But we in the Arab world have enough awareness to behave and react to face all the big and dangerous problems.
Amr Moussa
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In stand up, you get an awareness of how you come across, but in acting there is almost a hyper-awareness on how you might be physically perceived.
Jim Gaffigan
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Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.
Ernest Becker
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Body awareness puts us in touch with our inner world.
Bessel van der Kolk
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The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.
Mike Honda
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I really love having an awareness.
Charlize Theron
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Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.
Gary A. Kowalski
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We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
Sebastian Faulks
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Harmony is a wonderful thing, but not nearly as powerful as awareness.
Arnold Mindell
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Meditation takes place when you bring all your awareness to this moment.
Brandon Bays
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I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting and incomplete. Into the homeless home of the sun-faced buddha I have stepped but briefly. My quest, such as it is, is rewarded with faint lights and scrawny cries, a trait here and trait there, a hint of the infinite and a tingle in the spine. Of "minute particulars" I will make my way.
Chet Raymo
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The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.
William E. Rees
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I think that the collectible ephemera craze/awareness is probably driven by a reverse market, rebounding off the sense of everything being mass-produced. It's the last step you take in trying to find something unique.
William Gibson
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The heart is that which lies at the centre of things, and is also formless. It is simple awareness devoid of movement to and fro, of past and future, within and without, merit and harm. Wherever the centre of a thing lies, there lies its heart, for the word 'heart' means centrality.
Ajahn Thate
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You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.
Will Self
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Once you start believing that something is possible, you start to let it in to your awareness and it starts to become true to you.
Anita Moorjani
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Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
Adyashanti
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Awareness is something apart from, and different from, all that of which we are aware: thoughts, emotions, images, sensations, desires and memory. Awareness is the ground in which the mind's contents manifest themselves; they appear in it and disappear once again.
Arthur J. Deikman