Quotes about Awareness
We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
— John Updike
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
— John Wooden
Listen if you want to be heard
— John Wooden
O that you would realize that each moment is golden.
— Ellen White
It is not the empty cup that we have difficulty in carrying; it is the cup full to the brim that must be carefully balanced.
— Ellen White
Satan watches eagerly to find Christians off their guard. O that the followers of Christ would remember that eternal vigilance is the price of eternal life. Many have a slumbering faith.
— Ellen White
Longing to excel, he had never even succeeded. He had been hampered by not knowing a number of things the average man took for granted; but he was hampered still more by knowing a number of other things the average man had never suspected.
— Ellen Glasgow
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
— Barack Obama
We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light. —Hildegard of Bingen
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Busy? The word loses all meaning under the canopy of this sky.
— Barbara Brown Taylor