Quotes about Awareness

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

You have a dreamer's look; you must not dream. It is only sick people who dream.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back.  It makes me far too conceited. lord

And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

have a wonderful instinct about things.  They can discover everything except the obvious.

Whatever you focus on expands.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

To say we must be more mindful of our words is an understatement.

One night a century ago, when a screech owl was screeching in the woods along the shores of Walden Pond, Henry Thoreau dipped his goose quill into his homemade ink and wrote in his diary: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life, which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run.

I am ashamed to realize that I never really learned to live until I feared I was going to die.