Quotes about Awareness

Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you're into it.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

I'm not a political person that much, but I've got common sense. I know when something's not right.

With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

Over the course of my 13-year career, I've had a lot of concussions, and yet, because I'm no longer competing or suffering from concussion symptoms, I felt like I was in the clear. The reality, though, is that I get concussions far more easily, and my symptoms last far longer than ever before.

Don't be guilty of ignoring symptoms of rebellion when your children are small. Don't simply excuse it as a stage they are going through and think that they will grow out of it. If you ignore it when they are small, you won't be able to handle it when they get older and the rebellion has had time to develop into a strong force.

The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.