Quotes about Awareness
Not appreciating the noise until she was surrounded by silence.
— Lisa Wingate
They showed me what a stable life could look like. If they hadn't bothered, how would I have even known there was another way to live? You can't aspire to something you've never seen.
— Lisa Wingate
No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always be out of step,
— Lisa Wingate
But ain't it always the way, Birdie, that the easiest faults to find in other people are the ones you got yourself?
— Lisa Wingate
everyone has history. Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.
— Lisa Wingate
I leaf through more pages, wondering, remembering, thinking about this watershed year. Life can turn on a dime. The appointment book reinforces my new awareness of this. We plan our days, but we don't control them.
— Lisa Wingate
Maybe grace was all around me, bubbling through, passing under my feet, and I'd never seen it because I'd never tried to see.
— Lisa Wingate
If Satan has toeholds that allow him to claw and climb from the underworld to this one, they lie in our failure to see ourselves in others.
— Lisa Wingate
It occurred to me that I should do more for other people. I never once considered that there were people just down the road who cannot afford proper clothing, or care for their children.
— Lisa Wingate
Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.
— Lisa Wingate
I never thought to ask her name, Father, but you know the little mulberry girl as you know each sparrow of the field. You are the white berry that removes the stain.
— Lisa Wingate
I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it. I
— Lisa Wingate