Quotes about Awareness
Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it.
— Henry B. Eyring
The reality is what Black Lives Matter are raising as an issue is an issue.
— Martin Luther King III
The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.
— Joel Osteen
She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.
— Frederick Buechner
Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
— Frederick Buechner
Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life...
— Frederick Buechner
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady on the tower, the old man on the train. In sum, pay attention to the world and all that dwells therein and thereby learn at last to pay attention to yourself and all that dwells therein.
— Frederick Buechner
It was not so much that a door opened as that I suddenly found that a door had been open all along which I had only just then stumbled upon.
— Frederick Buechner
The faces we lose track of most easily are the faces of the people who are closest to us, the people we love the most whose faces we see so often that we can't really see them anymore.
— Frederick Buechner
There is treasure buried in the field of every one of our days, even the bleakest or dullest, and it is our business, as we journey, to keep our eyes peeled for it.
— Frederick Buechner
And it seems to me the world is a manger, the whole bloody mess of it, where God is being born again and again and again and again and again and again. You've got your mind on so many other things. You are so busy with this and that, you don't see it. You don't notice it.
— Frederick Buechner
To love your neighbor is to see your neighbor. To see somebody, really to see somebody, you have to love somebody.
— Frederick Buechner