Quotes about Awareness

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

Throughout the day, anytime you find yourself feeling stressed or wanting to complain, stop for 10 seconds and breathe. Count your breaths and your blessings.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

Breathe and let be.

Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness. . . . So there is a difference between believing that a person is beautiful, and having a sense of his beauty. The former may be obtained by hearsay, but the lat- ter only by seeing the countenance.

The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less.

It's our job to "keep" the republic called America, and we can hardly keep what we don't even know we have.

Most British citizens had never seen anyone branded or whipped or subjected to thumbscrews. They had no idea that conditions on West Indian sugar plantations were so brutal that most of the slaves were literally worked to death in just a few years and most of the female slaves were too ill to bear children.