Quotes about Awareness

At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.

Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

Little things affect little minds.

And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.

I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself."

Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.