Quotes about Awareness
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
— Henry David Thoreau
I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
— Henry David Thoreau
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
— Henry David Thoreau
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
— Henry David Thoreau
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
— Henry David Thoreau
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.
— Henry David Thoreau
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
— Henry David Thoreau
Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.
— Henry David Thoreau
They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.
— Henry David Thoreau
Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.
— Henry David Thoreau
To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery.
— Henry David Thoreau
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.
— Henry David Thoreau