Quotes about Awareness

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

There's no way we can escape accountability. We do make a difference—one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives.

Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.

Humans have between what happens to us and our response to it.

I think each of us has an internal monitor or sense, a conscience, that gives us an awareness of our own uniqueness and the singular contributions that we can make.

If we are not careful to daily drink of the 'living waters,' we can easily and slowly become strangers to the Lord and his ways and to our own divine identity and purpose.

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power—the freedom to choose.

You can't become principle-centered without first being aware of and developing your own proactive nature. You can't become principle-centered without first being aware of your paradigms and understanding how to shift them and align them with principles. You can't become principle-centered without a vision of and a focus on the unique contribution that is yours to make.

We can't go very far to change our seeing without simultaneously changing our being, and vice versa.

As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.

I am convinced we will discover and rediscover the truth of T. S. Eliot's observation: We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

Look at the word responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response.